ietf trust report

IETF Trust Chair Report

Ed Juskeviciusedj@nortel.com

November 22, 2008

Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Contents

Trust Report slides as they were presented during the IETF-73 Administative Plenary

Reaction by the community after the report

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IETF Trust Actions since Dublin (1)

"Legal Provisions Pertaining to IETF Documents"

Completed work on a new policy as requested by the community in RFC5377:

Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents

Set the effective date of the new policy to be November 10th, to coincide with the publication of RFC5377 & RFC5378: Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust

Published the "Legal Provisions" policy:http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/

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IETF Trust Actions since Dublin (2)

Implementation of the new policy:

Announced the publication of RFC5377, RFC5378 and the "Legal Provisions" in:New Boilerplate Text Required for all new Submissions to IETF

Approved a transition plan for boilerplate text in new submissions: New submissions can use either the old or the new

copyright text until December 16, 2008 After 01h00 UTC on December 16, 2008, only

submissions with new boilerplate text will be accepted

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IETF Trust Actions since Dublin (3)

Status of Document Submission Tools:

Started work to update applicable document generating/verifying tools and templates for the new boilerplate text: idnits - two modes -- regular and submission checking mode

(Henrik Levkowetz) IDST - Perl (Glen Barney) & Python (Bill Fenner) xml2rfc - RFC Editor tool (Marshall Rose & Bill Fenner) nroff template - ISI WORD template - Joe Touch personal templates & tools - individual authors

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Boilerplate text to be included in every new IETF Document:

Copyright and License Text:

Copyright (c) [insert year] IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.

This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust’s Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document.

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Additional boilerplate text for some documents:

Submission Compliance for all Internet-Drafts:This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.

Derivative Works and Publication Limitations:(See Section 6.c of "Legal Provisions" policy)

Two different sets of text are possible for use on some working group documents (but never on any standards-track document).

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IETF Trust Actions planned for the remainder of 2008

Focus on Administrivia: Send weekly reminders on what will happen

after 01h00 UTC on December 16th

Catch-up on publication of minutes of Trustee meetings

Do some trademark "policing"

And more ...

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Contents

Trust Report slides as they were presented during the IETF-73 Administative Plenary

Reaction by the community after the report

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Community Reaction to Trust Report

Several good questions were raised during the open mic Q&A including:

What IPR rights and legal provisions pertain to pre-RFC5378 contributions into the IETF?

Answer: "We need to secure additional rights from the original authors for derivative works."

What IPR rights and legal provisions pertain to "non-IETF" submissions?

Answer: "We do not know, except that this is not an issue for the IETF Trust."

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IETF Trust Actions planned for the remainder of 2008 (bis)

New: IPR in pre-RFC5378 submissions Send weekly reminders on what will happen

after 01h00 UTC on December 16th, and determine if we need to postpone Dec 16th !

Catch-up on publication of minutes of Trustee meetings

Do some trademark "policing"

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Questions ?

Thank You !