On Tue 04/Sep/2012 19:57:36 +0200 Russ Housley wrote:
If an I-D is posted with secret text, then the secret is disclosed.
I-D are copied to many shadow repositories all over the world. So,
removing the I-D from ietf.org will not remove the secret text from
the Internet.
I figure the odds that an I-D contains secret text be reasonably low.
Please explain what you mean by inappropriate boilerplate? The I-D
submission process checks the boilerplate.
For example, one of two authors might publish an I-D with trust200902
assuming the other author will be happy with that, and later find out
that that assumption was wrong. As it formally licenses the work,
that boilerplate text may make the difference between fair use and
infringement of an exclusive right of the copyright owner --IANAL.
On Sep 4, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
On Tue 04/Sep/2012 03:29:00 +0200 Sam Hartman wrote:
2) An author realizes that an I-D accidentally contains proprietary
information, infringes someone else's copyright, failed to go through
external release processes for the author/editor's organization, etc.
Obviously factors like how long after the I-D is submitted might need to
be considered.
Except for I-Ds that reveal secret text, infringements should only
result from inappropriate boilerplate copyright claims. It would be
enough to tag such I-Ds with a suitable disclaimer, in a way similar
to how the presence of errata is (not) handled.