Re: draft-higgs (Re: [ga-roots] Capture and Diversion)

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 10:43 AM 5/6/01 +0200, you wrote:
>At 15:31 04.05.2001 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>>At 01:45 PM 5/4/01 +0200, you wrote:
>>>At 11:05 02.05.2001 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>>>>Then can we all assume ICANN will fully comply with this IETF document 
>>>>once it becomes an RFC:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-root-defs-00.txt
>>>>
>>>>The DNSO should be fully supporting this effort to prevent collisions 
>>>>between roots.
>>>
>>>on this point, I can claim to speak with a tiny bit of authority.
>>>
>>>just to make the formalities clear:
>>>
>>>1) The author of draft-higgs chose not to grant to the IETF the rights to
>>>    publish his draft as an RFC, even if it wanted to. See the copyright
>>>    notice in the preface ("is NOT offered in conformance with...")
>>
>>And once again you are incorrect. It's published as an internet draft 
>>using the IETF's own "boilerplate" wording - I chose "Mandatory 
>>Statement" #3 as it does not grant derivative rights:
>>http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt
>>
>>    This document is an Internet-Draft and is NOT offered in accordance
>>    with Section 10 of RFC2026, and the author does not provide the IETF
>>    with any rights other than to publish as-is.
>>
>>Rights are granted to publish "as-is" without changes to the content or 
>>relinquishing the copyright to the ISOC. In other words, you can't alter 
>>or modify it, and create a derivative work to remove liability from ICANN 
>>for creating/causing a name space collision.
>
>You miss the little detail that an RFC is a derivative work from the 
>internet-draft, and that RFCs are ALWAYS copyright ISOC.

I'd like to thank Scot Bradner for kindly explaining the intricacies of the 
IETF boiler-plate.

How the draft is worded right now is just fine as it's just a draft and not 
quite ready for RFC-dom.



Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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