Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: Hi Chris, I have become confused between the permission necessary to republish the Tao, and the request to republish under a Creative Commons license. Can I try to clarify. Do we or do we not grant permission for

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Chris Griffiths cgriffi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:11 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: At 23:48 02-08-2013, Chris Griffiths wrote: Issue 1 We have recently been asked permission to republish the TAO with a creative commons license, but

RE: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-10-09 Thread Adrian Farrel
C Klensin; Nevil Brownlee; ietf@ietf.org list Subject: Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Chris Griffiths cgriffi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:11 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: At 23:48 02-08-2013, Chris Griffiths wrote

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:11 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Hello SM, At 23:48 02-08-2013, Chris Griffiths wrote: Issue 1 We have recently been asked permission to republish the TAO with a creative commons license, but according to counsel, the current trust agreement does not give the

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-09-24 Thread SM
Hi Chris, At 23:48 02-08-2013, Chris Griffiths wrote: Issue 1 We have recently been asked permission to republish the TAO with a creative commons license, but according to counsel, the current trust agreement does not give the trustees the rights to do this. - Without specific language

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-09 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, August 08, 2013 23:20 + John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: That sounds right. Someone might want to add commentary (even in English) to the Tao, such as to discuss local participants, diversity, and so on. Someone might, or they might rewrite it to say that IETF

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-09 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
Verbatim translation, as I understand from what I hear from my wife (who works as a professional translator) is where you don't introduce any semantic changes whatsoever within the reasonable limitations imposed by the need of mapping between the different languages you're working with. When

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread t . p .
Chris I would not like to see the Trust Agreement change to accommodate issues one or two - I think that the agreement got that one right. Three is different. The Trust ought to be able to dispose of rights that are not needed, never will be and are costing money. But how can that be expressed

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:42 AM, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: Chris I would not like to see the Trust Agreement change to accommodate issues one or two - I think that the agreement got that one right. Thank you for this feedback. Three is different. The Trust ought to be able to

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I've been doing some more thinking about this, and I have received quite a bit of private feedback about my previous comments, ranging from don't be so picky, let these guys do their thankless job to please be more picky, this is the thin end of the wedge. So - this isn't really about being

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: We might reach consensus that it's OK to release change control over the Tao (although I'm not sure I agree with that - what's so hard about keeping it under an RFC-like license?). Nothing is hard about it. The

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/08/2013 02:04 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: We might reach consensus that it's OK to release change control over the Tao (although I'm not sure I agree with that - what's so hard about keeping it under an

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 08/08/2013 02:04 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: We might reach consensus that it's OK to release change control over the Tao (although I'm not

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Jorge Contreras
Can you elaborate on why the license makes a difference? We have been told it would make it easier for people to make and distribute translations. --Paul Hoffman Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing IETF document license. It's other modifications

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread John Levine
We have recently been asked permission to republish the TAO with a creative commons license, but according to counsel, the current trust agreement does not give the trustees the rights to do this. - Without specific language being added to the trust agreement, we cannot grant these types of

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Jorge Contreras cntre...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing IETF document license. It's other modifications that are not allowed under IETF, but which CC-BY would permit. That sounds right. Someone might want

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Jorge Contreras cntre...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on why the license makes a difference? We have been told it would make it easier for people to make and distribute translations. --Paul Hoffman Actually, verbatim translations are already

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/08/2013 02:49 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Jorge Contreras cntre...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing IETF document license. It's other modifications that are not allowed under IETF, but which CC-BY would

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread John Levine
Actually, verbatim translations are already allowed under the existing IETF document license. It's other modifications that are not allowed under IETF, but which CC-BY would permit. That sounds right. Someone might want to add commentary (even in English) to the Tao, such as to discuss local

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-05 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On Aug 3, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Chris Griffiths cgriffi...@gmail.com wrote: IETF Community, The IETF Trust Trustees would like feedback from the community on several issues: - We have received requests that we cannot accommodate and have consulted legal counsel to review our options

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: Does the community feel these are reasonable reasons to update the trust agreement? The answer to that question is: yes. It seems reasonable to open up the agreement in order to fulfill its purpose in reasonable,

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-05 Thread Tobias Gondrom
+1 Tobias Gondrom Paul Hoffman paul.hoff...@vpnc.org wrote: On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: Does the community feel these are reasonable reasons to update the trust agreement? The answer to that question is: yes. It seems reasonable to open up the

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-05 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: On Aug 3, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Chris Griffiths cgriffi...@gmail.com wrote: IETF Community, The IETF Trust Trustees would like feedback from the community on several issues: - We have received requests that we cannot

Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-03 Thread Chris Griffiths
IETF Community, The IETF Trust Trustees would like feedback from the community on several issues: - We have received requests that we cannot accommodate and have consulted legal counsel to review our options - The trust agreement does not allow the trustees to effectively manage