Bob Braden wrote:
Indeed -- I don't see a copyright notice in RFC 1065. This may be a
useful approach for old RFCs that lack a copyright notice. Does anyone
know when the ISOC copyright notice was first applied to RFCs?
Probably some time after 1989, when the ISOC took over funding of the
RFC Editor. I don't recall exactly, but it should not be hard to find out.
This is probably worth summarizing, so I just did a scan of the RFC archive:
1) There is no copyright text in RFCs until:
Network Working Group M. Gahrns
Request for Comments: 2221 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track October 1997
IMAP4 Login Referrals
...
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved.
...
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This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
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included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this
document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
English.
The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
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BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
2) In my view, the next change was the critical one, because it altered the
ownership model, with authors being declared as having ownership rights (where
my non-lawyers eyes read the earlier one as declaring ISOC as owning the rights,
modulo the ones authors can't give away):
Network Working Group J. Cuellar
Request for Comments: 3693 Siemens AG
Category: Informational J. Morris
Center for Democracy & Technology
D. Mulligan
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic
J. Peterson
NeuStar
J. Polk
Cisco
February 2004
Geopriv Requirements
...
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
...
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3) The next revision to this came with:
Network Working Group M. Munakata
Request for Comments: 4715 S. Schubert
Category: Informational T. Ohba
NTT
November 2006
The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
Subaddress Encoding Type for tel URI
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OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST,
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Dave Crocker
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