manning bill wrote:
however there are more than a decades worth of IDs that carry no
ISOC/IETF copyright. For those, the rights exist only with the authors.
As a condition of publication was the fact that they were
intended/expected to be ephemeral and the IETF right to publish
expired six months after initial publication.
You might want to recheck the applicable copyright law terms.
A "publication" has a significant impact of the amount of control
the copyright holder has on what happens to a copyrighted works.
In Germany, the legal term is "Erschöpfungsgrundsatz", in the US,
a vaguely similar legal concept seems to exist under the name
"first sale doctrine".
-Martin