Subject: Tracking IPR (Re: RFC Author Count and IPR)

From: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:38:45 +0200

Just one note on this long thread:

At present, the IETF secretariat does *not* attempt to track who has 
copyright rights on what parts of the text.
Neither, as far as I know, does anyone else (WG chair or editors), apart 
from following the RFC 2026 rule that "significant contributions should 
be acknowledged" - this is commonly done by Authors, Contributors and 
Acknowledgement sections, which rarely point to specific pieces of text.

Claiming that we track copyrights on pieces of text, and then not doing 
it, would, in my opinion, be extremely stupid for multiple reasons.

So I want to make it perfectly clear that the IETF is NOT doing this.

                               Harald

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