Cullen Jennings <fluffy(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> writes:
On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
This was the consensus of the IPR WG and the IETF,
I doubt the IPR WG really fully thought about this or understood
it. If someone who was deeply involved can provide definitive evidence
of this one way or the other that would be great. I am pretty sure
this was not widely understood when it was IETF LC and I very
confident it was not understood by the IESG when when they approved
it.
I agree. I don't recall discussions that the intention was that the
documents would require IETF participants to contact earlier IETF
contributors about transferring rights to the Trust. I believe the
intention was to maintain status quo in this area, i.e., to allow IETF
participants to freely re-use IETF documents within the IETF standards
process.
Given the complexity of the documents, I'm not surprised there are
unforeseen consequences like this. Unfortunately, the problems I
brought up with the old copyright policy did not lead to discussions of
how to reduce complexity. Instead, more complexity was added to work
around identified problems.
/Simon
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