Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-23 Thread TSG
Contreras, Jorge wrote: No, absolutely not. Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF standards process has never been an issue, only use outside the IETF is problematic (ie, allowed under 5378 but not the earlier rules). Jorge - if the contributor's in a RC2026 controlled submission choose

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-23 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu To: Tom.Petch sisyp...@dial.pipex.com Cc: Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:44 PM Subject: Re: RFC 5378 contributions So I wasn't on the IPR working group, but it seems to me

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-21 Thread John C Klensin
+1 --On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 15:20 +0100 Tom.Petch sisyp...@dial.pipex.com wrote: ... Underlying this, I believe that if only the IPR WG had not had to spend so much time discussing and re-discussing and re-re-discussing ... this issue, then may be, just may be, we would have had more

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Tom.Petch wrote: Underlying this, I believe that if only the IPR WG had not had to spend so much time discussing and re-discussing and re-re-discussing ... this issue, then may be, just may be, we would have had more time to focus on the transition

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: However, the theme were present in several discussions about simplifying the procedures. One link (but probably not the best one) would be: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ipr/3738 Implicit in that argument is that

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu writes: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: However, the theme were present in several discussions about simplifying the procedures. One link (but probably not the best one) would be: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ipr/3738

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu writes: However, that presumably wouldn't be tree for allowing text or code to be used in implementations, open source or otherwise --- I assume that wouldn't require prior permission first, right? Right, but only for code. See section 4 of

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:23 AM On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:50:46AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Consider the threat model here. This threat applies ONLY to material that the Trust licenses to third parties (such as,

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Tom.Petch wrote: - Original Message - From: Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:23 AM On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:50:46AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Consider the threat model here. This threat applies ONLY to material that

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:04:13AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: This raises a question. The IETF publishes relatively little code compared to the millions of lines of open source code out there. How do the large open source projects protect and indemnify themselves and their participants in

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread SM
At 16:23 15-01-2009, Theodore Tso wrote: That I think is the key; each person can only warrant what they themselves have authored. Something that might be worth looking at is the Developer's Certification of Origin, which is how Linux Kernel developers deal with contributions for the Linux

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
SM s...@resistor.net writes: which gets incoproated into the kernel must have a Signed-off-by, like this: The IETF does not use version control to keep track of changes to a document. Version control is not needed to track changes. Document changes cannot be compared to code contributions

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:52 AM Subject: Re: RFC 5378 contributions On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:33:35PM -0500, Contreras, Jorge wrote: No, absolutely not.nbsp; Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 1:38 PM +1300 1/15/09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: IANAL, but it seems to me that we should proceed on the assumption that this would fall under fair use provisions. Anything else would seem unreasonable to me. IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Martin Duerst
I'm happy with the answer re. use of pre-5378 RFC material on an IETF mailing list. I'm not sure about the answer re. use in an Internet-Draft. With respect to this, I think what Randy wanted to ask is: Do we need to get contributor premission before using material from an email posting made

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread John C Klensin
I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied that suggestion into a draft without any paraphrasing, a plain-sense reading of 5378's

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote: I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied that suggestion into a draft

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: The reason why I do not agree with this reasoning is that these rights are claimed through authorship. That claim is precisely what I think is false, because RFC 5378 has defined Contributor in a particular way, and then

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote: If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Theodore Tso
More to the point, the question at hand was to what happens to mailing list discussions (or face to face discussions) which took place *before* RFC 5378 was published. John's observation was that it doesn't matter when the I-D or RFC is published, even if it is published *after* RFC 5378, if it

RE: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Contreras, Jorge
: RFC 5378 contributions I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied that suggestion into a draft without any paraphrasing

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread John Levine
IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this thread, but the phrase fair use does not appear in RFC 5378. Maybe it should. Fair use is specific to the U.S. Most other countries have similar legal concepts under other names like fair dealing, but they all differ in minor ways. This would run

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote: If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote: If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
John C Klensin wrote: I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied that suggestion into a draft without any paraphrasing, a

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
Contreras -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:10 AM To: Andrew Sullivan; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: RFC 5378 contributions I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:50:46AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Consider the threat model here. This threat applies ONLY to material that the Trust licenses to third parties (such as, say, the IEEE) for inclusion and modification in their standards. (Just reprinting or translating an RFC

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Theodore Tso tytso at mit dot edu wrote: So it's a problem if every single I-D and RFC author is going to have to consult their own counsel before deciding that won't get into legal trouble when guaranteeing that all of their text is appropriately licensed. I certainly won't be volunteering

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-15 13:32, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - I originally asked this question on the WG chairs' list, and was asked to ask again here... The discussion about RFC 5378 (what little I've been able to understand of it, anyway) has focussed on I-Ds and RFCs. However, the definition of

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-01-15 13:32, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - I originally asked this question on the WG chairs' list, and was asked to ask again here... The discussion about RFC 5378 (what little I've been able to understand of it, anyway) has

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:38 PM +1300 1/15/09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-01-15 13:32, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - I originally asked this question on the WG chairs' list, and was asked to ask again here... The discussion about RFC 5378 (what little I've been able to understand of it, anyway) has focussed

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Contreras, Jorge
Title: Re: RFC 5378 contributions No, absolutely not. Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF standards process has never been an issue, only use outside the IETF is problematic (ie, allowed under 5378 but not the earlier rules). - Original Message - From: ietf-boun

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:33:35PM -0500, Contreras, Jorge wrote: No, absolutely not.nbsp; Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF standards process has never been an issue, only use outside the IETF is problematic (ie, allowed under 5378 but not the earlier rules). Why is the actual situation

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Randy Presuhn
To: randy_pres...@mindspring.com; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:33 PM Subject: Re: RFC 5378 contributions Re: RFC 5378 contributionsNo, absolutely not. Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF standards process has never been an issue, only use outside the IETF is problematic (ie