Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream
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(December 2009; No errata)
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Network Working Group A. Malis, Ed.
Request for Comments: 5745 For the IAB
Updates: 4846 December 2009
Category: Informational
Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream
Abstract
This document specifies the procedures by which authors of RFC IAB
stream documents grant the community "incoming" rights for copying and
using the text. It also specifies the "outgoing" rights the community
grants to readers and users of those documents, and it requests that the
IETF Trust manage the outgoing rights to effect this result.
Status of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
publication of this document. Please review these documents
carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the BSD License.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Rules for Submission and Use of Material . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. Procedures Requested of the IETF Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Patent and Trademark Rules for the IAB Stream . . . . . . . . . 4
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
10. IAB Members at the Time of This Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1. Introduction
As the IETF has grown, the process and the community have become more
careful about defining the rights relating to copying documents that
are granted by authors to the community, and the corresponding rights
that are granted by the community to readers and users of these
documents. The creation of the IETF Trust [RFC4371], with its
special role in managing intellectual property rights (IPR), has also
increased the need to be explicit about these rights and decisions.
This document defines the copyright procedures for RFC IAB stream
documents. It parallels the procedures for IETF-produced documents
defined in RFC 5377 [RFC5377] and RFC 5378 [RFC5378].
In summary, submissions in the IAB stream use the same submission
procedures and mechanisms that are defined in RFC 5378, and hence
require the same "incoming rights" as IETF-stream documents. This
document provides advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on
"outgoing" rights to be granted to readers and users of IAB stream
documents, and it explicitly requests the IETF Trust to manage the
rights in accordance with this advice.
This document also specifies the policies with regard to the
disclosure of Patents and Trademarks that may be relevant to a
submission intended for the IAB stream.
2. Background
The concept of RFC streams in general, and the IAB stream in
particular, is described in Section 5 of RFC 4844 [RFC4844].
Section 8 of RFC 4846 [RFC4846] presented the copyright rules for the
Independent Submission stream. The present document is intended to
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be fully consistent with that section, and to update it by clarifying
the formal procedures that the IETF Trust will use to effect those
rules. In particular, it is the intention of this document to make
the copyright rules for IAB stream documents identical to those for
Independent Submission stream documents.
3. Goals
The goal of the IAB stream of RFCs is to publish information from the
IAB to the Internet community. Consistent with the principle stated
for the Independent Submission stream in Section 8 of RFC 4846, this
objective will best be met with a liberal copyright policy on IAB
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