Russ Housley wrote:
Marshall:
My understanding (and IANAL and Jorge is welcome to correct me) is
that the IETF
does indeed have "sufficient rights to allow re-use of IETF documents
within the IETF", and
that this is purely concerned with the power of granting modification
rights to other parties.
This is not a very common occurrence as far as I can tell, and so in
some sense
this is a corner case.
You are correct that the rights for the IETF Standards Process are
already in place, at least for every contribution made after RFC 2026
was published. However, RFC 5378 does not include a provision for a
contribution that does not grant all of the required rights.
Even if the IETF Trust were to never make use of any rights beyond the
IETF Standards Process, these additional rights must be granted under
the requirements of RFC 5378. If a person cannot obtain the necessary
rights, then that person cannot make a contribution to the IETF. This
was the consensus of the IPR WG and the IETF, and the IETF is now
operating under the resulting process BCP.
Russ
Which changes the IETF from arguably a pure R&D NPO to a IP Licensing
House with a portfolio worth at the very least the hundreds of millions
spent on producing it.
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