Subject: [IPsec] RFC 5378 and this WG

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:24:32 -0800

Greetings again. If you are an author or contributor on in this WG, please read <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg54839.html>. It is important.

The WG Chairs have been asked to make their WGs aware of this issue. This is a complicated subject, but the executive summary is that if you have an Internet-Draft that quotes substantially from one or more older RFCs (ones with a publication date pre-November 11, 2008), and you did not write this earlier work yourself (or you wrote it while with another company), you need to be aware of the likely difficulty of obtaining RFC 5378 clearances for your new work, and also to be aware that a work-around is on the way. The work-around should be in place to allow submissions to the San Francisco IETF well before the normal deadlines. See the attached text for more details.

There is an open question about whether or not an Internet Draft that quotes from the WG discussion also needs clearance from the person who proposed text in the discussion. For example, IKEv2bis has a lot of material that has been proposed on this mailing list.

If you feel that you have a draft for which this will be a problem, please contact me.

With a chair hat on, I am not going to allow a general discussion about RFC 5378 on this list (as it is very off-topic). Please take such comments to the main IETF discussion list. Questions about specific WG drafts are of course on topic.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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