Subject: Re: Fwd: DISCUSS: draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-ldpc

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:50:45 +1300

Russ, you're quoting the -06 draft and the relevant
wording is significantly different in the -07
draft. My belief is that the -07 draft is fine.

    Brian

On 2007-11-28 04:05, Russ Housley wrote:
> Here is an extract from a DISCUSS position that I just posted.  I'd 
> appreciate any advice that this WG may have on an easy way to resolve 
> this situation.
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
>>   There are code extracts in the document, and the Introduction says:
>>   >
>>   > A publicly available reference implementation of these codes is
>>   > available and distributed under a GNU/LGPL license [8].
>>   >
>>   It would be desirable to add an explicit statement that the code
>>   extracts in the document are directly contributed to the IETF process
>>   by their authors (i.e., they are are not subject to LGPL).  To this
>>   end, the authors have proposed:
>>   >
>>   > The code extracts in this document are directly contributed to the
>>   > IETF process by their authors, unless otherwise mentionned.
>>   >
>>   The document authors don't own the copyright of all of the source code,
>>   and therefore cannot contribute it to the IETF process. This is the
>>   case for Pseudo Random Number Generator in Section 5.6 and the Parity
>>   Check Matrix Creation in Section 6.2.  The origin of this source code
>>   is clearly stated.  There has been a huge amount of discussion about
>>   source code in RFCs, and it is not clear that the rights offered are
>>   adequate for a standards track RFC.
> 
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