Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

Contreras, Jorge wrote:
>  
>
>   
> > Who owns the oft-repeated
> >    The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
> >    "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and 
> > "OPTIONAL" in this
> >    document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
> >     
>   
> > I'm referring to the bits effectively required by the MIB 
> > doctors, e.g.:
> >    This memo defines a portion of the Management Information 
> > Base (MIB)
> >    for use with network management protocols in the Internet 
> > community.
> >    In particular, it defines a basic set of managed objects for Simple
> >    Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based management of ...
> >
> > and
> >    For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current
> >    Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to 
> > section 7 of
> >    RFC 3410 [RFC3410].
> >
> >    Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information 
> > store, termed
> >    the Management Information Base or MIB.  MIB objects are generally
> >    accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
> >    Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the
> >    Structure of Management Information (SMI).  This memo 
> > specifies a MIB
> >    module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described 
> > in STD 58,
> >    RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580
> >    [RFC2580].
> >
> > and various incarnations of this stuff that appear in the text of RFCs
> > that happen to contain MIB modules, not the stuff that's in 
> > the MIB modules.
> > (Earlier versions of this were rather lengthy.)
> >     
> I will check into this.  Ideally, all boilerplate would be owned by the
> IETF Trust, but I am not aware that anyone has ever focused on this
> material.  Technically, the copyright owner would be the author(s) who
> wrote the first document that says those words.  However, the copyright
> in such generic phrases is vestigial at best. 
Jorge, would the fact that people have acted as if these phrases can be 
copied freely for the last 20 years create a presumption that the 
copyright holders (if any) have given permission for their free copying?
(I tracked the first sentence of the "Managed objects are accessed" 
phrase back to RFC 1065, August 1988; authors-of-record were Marshall 
Rose and Keith McCloghrie. There were drafts before that, of course.)
            Harald

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