Tim Salo wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:56:02 -0700
> > From: Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: An Internet Draft as reference material
> > [...]
> > PS - is no one else alarmed by the re-publishing of material
> > submitted under an explicit agreement for 'removal after 6 mos'?
> > I know _I_ have not been asked for such permission.
>
> To the contrary, I believe that you granted broad permissions when you
> submitted a document as an Internet Draft. For example, in
> draft-touch-ipsec-vpn-00.txt you write:
>
> [...]
> This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
> all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 except for the right to
> produce derivative works.
> [...]
>
> >From RFC 2026, Section 10.3.1. All Contributions:
>
> l. ... However, to the extent that the submission is or may
> be subject to copyright, the contributor, the organization he
> represents (if any) and the owners of any proprietary rights in
> the contribution, grant an unlimited perpetual, non-exclusive,
> royalty-free, world-wide right and license to the ISOC and the
> IETF under any copyrights in the contribution. This license
> includes the right to copy, publish and distribute the
> contribution in any way, and to prepare derivative works that are
> based on or incorporate all or part of the contribution, the
> license to such derivative works to be of the same scope as the
> license of the original contribution.
>
> On a bad day, I might be inclined to ask: Am I the only one concerned about
> authors "forgetting" that they have granted broad rights to the
> ISOC and IETF?
Reading along further in the same document:
> ... Internet Drafts that
> have been removed (for any reason) from the Internet-Drafts
> directories shall be archived by the IETF Secretariat for the sole
> purpose of preserving an historical record of Internet standards
> activity and thus are not retrievable except in special
> circumstances.
It isn't so clear that the rights in Sec 10.3.1 supercede the
implicit agreement in Sec. 8.
Joe
