Subject: Re: [tcpm] FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments ...

From: Alfred Hönes <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:28:36 +0100 (MEZ)

Folks,
FYI, the original IETF Trust announcement quoted in Eddy's message
is archived at:
   http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg54839.html

Maybe that URL and the better readable form of the original
announcement are of benefit for many.

The ensuing discussion has instantaneously started flooding the
IETF main list, and it seems intractable for anybody wanting to
perform practically useful work to follow all that ongoing
discussion threads.

It looks pretty like nothing is for sure, at the moment.

However, in order to not block almost all IETF activities,
the IETF Trust apparently is willing to admit a less formal
procedure (without requiring all present and past contributors
signing and filing a formal licence agreement) -- at least
temporarily, for a short transit period.

In support of this, and in the hope that it might alleviate
the work of authors which are in the process of updating drafts
and might otherwise be
- either blocked by the pending legal issues,
- or burdened by having to collect formal consent of all IETF
  contributors (to previous work, reviews, on- or off-list input
  intended to be regarded as IETF contribution),
- or else running the personal risk of litigations by third parties
  waiting for opportunities to make money out of construed
  violations of copyright law,
I would like to follow a related precedent in another WG and make
my grant public on the list.

    I hereby grant to the IETF Trust the rights according to
    RFC 5378 in my IETF contributions, including in particular
    past and present postings to IETF mailing lists, and
    off-list communications with authors of Internet-Drafts
    and RFCs reasonably being understood as contributing to
    their work and not explicitely called out as private.

Best regards,
  Alfred Hönes.

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