Re: [Trustees] Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henk Uijterwaal writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: > >>> If a proposal from the IETF is in conflict with the terms of the Trust >>> Agreement or the law then a Trustee has the obligation to veto it (a >>> fairly academic possibility, I believe). >> >> I don't see how that is related to step 4 above

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
Simon Josefsson wrote: If a proposal from the IETF is in conflict with the terms of the Trust Agreement or the law then a Trustee has the obligation to veto it (a fairly academic possibility, I believe). I don't see how that is related to step 4 above. There is plenty of mechanisms left for t

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Olaf Kolkman writes: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I'm strongly concerned that this puts the decision making of what is and what is not a problem into the Trust's hands. >>> >>> No, there is always step 5: review of the new text or decision not >>> to chang

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
Simon, I wish that is how it would work. The most recent change of the TLP was not following that process -- instead the Trust proposed the change and implemented it after some delay -- and, for example, it resulted in a change to how BSD licensed portions extracted from IETF documents that is

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: I'm strongly concerned that this puts the decision making of what is and what is not a problem into the Trust's hands. No, there is always step 5: review of the new text or decision not to change the text. If a suggestion isn't considere

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henk Uijterwaal writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Marshall Eubanks writes: >> >>> Comments sought for: Standard Procedure for Modifying the TLP >> >> Is this a solution looking for a problem? RFC 5377 is an example of >> where the IETF asks the Trust do something. What is wrong with using >

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-09-08 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
Simon Josefsson wrote: Marshall Eubanks writes: Comments sought for: Standard Procedure for Modifying the TLP Is this a solution looking for a problem? RFC 5377 is an example of where the IETF asks the Trust do something. What is wrong with using the same approach in the future? The app

RE: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-19 Thread Endre Jarraux Walls
.org] On Behalf Of Tadayuki Abraham HATTORI Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:14 PM To: Marshall Eubanks; ietf@ietf.org; Working Group Chairs Cc: Trustees; Internet Research Steering Group; IAB IAB; IESG; ipr...@ietf.org; RFC Editor Subject: Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisio

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-18 Thread John C Klensin
Marshall, My apologies for not responding sooner to this. I've been in offsite meetings for the last two days with very limited email access and have only now been able to study your message and scan the subsequent comments. Several aspects of these comments have been influenced by those other n

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-18 Thread SM
Hello, At 19:10 17-08-2009, Joel M. Halpern wrote: The Trust Legal Provisions document specifies exactly how the trust, and people acting based on the trust, are doing things. From Section 2e of the IETF Trust License Policy: "These Legal Provisions may be amended from time to time by the IET

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > and getting it published as an RFC should not be difficult. If it takes > 9 month to get that done, something else is broken. One might be tempted to argue, indeed, that what is broken is the proliferation of policies, written pr

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
The tlp-interest mail list is now active, for people who wish to discuss TLP issues there. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tlp-interest Regards Marshall On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Greetings; During the last review of the Trust Legal Provisions (TLP), it bec

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian E Carpenter writes: > On 2009-08-18 07:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: > ... >> This is another reason why the current approach of getting IETF >> consensus on an RFC and publishing should be preferred. Compare RFC >> 5377. It is a well defined process, and unless there is consensus that >> th

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would agree with Brian, but phrase it differently. The Trust Legal Provisions document specifies exactly how the trust, and people acting based on the trust, are doing things. There are (at least) two kinds of changes that can occur. 1) There can be changes in policy, particularly policy as

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with the proposed policy, except that I propose calling it just "Procedure". It isn't policy, it's just common sense about how to implement policy. On 2009-08-18 07:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: ... > This is another reason why the current approach of getting IETF > consensus on an RFC and pu

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Tadayuki Abraham HATTORI
t;IESG" ; ; "RFC Editor" Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:02 AM Subject: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP) Greetings; During the last review of the Trust Legal Provisions (TLP), it became clear that there is no clear procedure for modifying th

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Russ Housley
SM: Does the IETF Trust want to stand in as a replacement for the old IPR WG? Certainly not. The changes that people might suggest to the TLP should be much less grand. Russ. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/list

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread SM
Hi Marshall, I'll take this opportunity to say that I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the IETF Trust implemented a IETF Trust Records Retention and Management Policy over two years ago. At 08:02 17-08-2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Comments sought for: Standard Procedure for Modifying

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marc Blanchet writes: > Marshall Eubanks a écrit : >> >> On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Marc Blanchet wrote: >> >>> Marshall Eubanks a écrit : Emergencies. An emergency is defined as "there is a problem with the TLP that is likely to be abused". In these cases, the trust can >>

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Marc Blanchet
Marshall Eubanks a écrit : > > On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Marc Blanchet wrote: > >> Marshall Eubanks a écrit : >>> >>> Emergencies. An emergency is defined as "there is a problem with the >>> TLP that is likely to be abused". In these cases, the trust can >>> publish >>> a modified text fo

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Marc Blanchet
Marshall Eubanks a écrit : > > Emergencies. An emergency is defined as "there is a problem with the > TLP that is likely to be abused". In these cases, the trust can publish > a modified text for a 2 week review period, then modify the TLP. The > Trust must explain the reason for the chan

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Simon; Some quick responses just for myself only. On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Marshall Eubanks writes: Comments sought for: Standard Procedure for Modifying the TLP Is this a solution looking for a problem? RFC 5377 is an example of where the IETF asks the

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Marc Blanchet wrote: Marshall Eubanks a écrit : Emergencies. An emergency is defined as "there is a problem with the TLP that is likely to be abused". In these cases, the trust can publish a modified text for a 2 week review period, then modify the TLP.

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marshall Eubanks writes: > Comments sought for: Standard Procedure for Modifying the TLP Is this a solution looking for a problem? RFC 5377 is an example of where the IETF asks the Trust do something. What is wrong with using the same approach in the future? The approach would be that someon

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Stephan Wenger
Hi Marshall, all, This is a good proposal. Would it be possible to enhance the review periods (steps 5 and 6) from 30/14 days to something like 60/30 days, respectively? Many people will need to go through corporate counsel on matters like this, which can be time consuming. 30 days is a quite t

Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Greetings; During the last review of the Trust Legal Provisions (TLP), it became clear that there is no clear procedure for modifying the TLP. The current TLP only states that a new version may be published for community review but not who can ask for a change, where announcements are sent, wh