Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream
RFC 5744
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(December 2009; No errata)
Updates RFC 4846
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Authors | Robert Braden , Joel Halpern | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | ISE | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | ISE state | (None) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 5744 (Informational) | |
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Russ Housley | ||
Send notices to | braden@isi.edu |
Network Working Group R. Braden Request for Comments: 5744 ISI Updates: 4846 J. Halpern Category: Informational Ericsson December 2009 Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream Abstract This document specifies the procedures by which authors of RFC Independent Submission 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. Braden & Halpern Informational [Page 1] RFC 5744 Rights for Independent Submissions December 2009 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Rules for Submission and Use of Material . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Procedures Requested of the IETF Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Patent and Trademark Rules for the Independent Submission Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. Introduction As the IETF has grown, the process and the community have gotten 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. This document defines the copyright procedures for RFC Independent Submission documents. It parallels the procedures for IETF-produced documents defined in [RFC5377] and [RFC5378]. In summary, submissions in the Independent Submission 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 Independent Submission documents, and it explicitly requests the IETF Trust to manage the rights in accordance with this advice. This document also specifies the policies regarding the disclosure of Patents and Trademarks that may be relevant to a submission intended for the Independent Submission stream. 2. Background The concept of RFC streams in general, and the Independent Submission stream in particular, are described in Section 5 of [RFC4844] and in RFC 4846 [RFC4846]. In general terms, the Independent Submission stream continues the long-established tradition in the Internet community of allowing and encouraging the RFC Editor to publish documents that are relevant to the community but are not products of, and do not conflict with, the IETF process. These may be comments on Braden & Halpern Informational [Page 2] RFC 5744 Rights for Independent Submissions December 2009 IETF documents or they may be other work relevant to the Internet that, historically, the RFC Editor has chosen to publish. With the publication of [RFC5620], the IETF began a process shift in which the responsibility for Independent Submission stream publication will move to an individual designated by the IAB as the Independent Submission Editor (ISE). Section 8 of RFC 4846 presented the copyright rules for the Independent Submission stream. The present document is intended toShow full document text