At 16:35 24-03-2009, John C Klensin wrote:
I just attended the IPR ("Pre-5398 Problem") BOF and want to
share an impression and suggestion.
While one could debate details of text and procedures endlessly,
reopen old battles, etc., there is really only one issue at
this point, and that issue is whether the community wants to
* try to accelerate the transition toward 5378 by
obligating authors to make a serious attempt to get
signoff from previous contributors or
* treat documents that contain pre-5398 material as
provided for in the workaround, i.e., authors obtain all
of the rights if they are willing to do that but
otherwise just insert the workaround text and move on.
That would be the "minimum solution". It does not require authors
to act as lawyers, hire lawyers, or perform a risk assessment to
figure out what they need to do.
I note that, if the community's preference is really the second
choice, then we are finished. The Trustees would presumably
follow the general rough consensus on this list, interpret the
existing workaround as permanent, and we would all move on.
There is no pressing copyright problem to solve as there is the
existing workaround. Unless there is a compelling reason for the
first choice, I don't see a need to spend more time on this issue.
Regards,
-sm
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