Copyright statement in MIB Modules
Many people/tools extract the MIB modules out of our RFCs that
contain a MIB module. In most cases they remove the copyright
information that is part of the RFC. This is against the IETF
copyright claim.
People/tools do this not with bad intentions. The reason they
do not extract the copyright info is because it is not in machine
readable/parsable form, and they want the MIB modules to feed
them into their agents, network management platforms, or other
MIB tools.
In order to ensure that the copyright statement is properly
preserved and included in extracted MIB modules, and in order
to make it easier for people/tools to keep the proper copyright
when extracting MIB modules, the IESG has agreed with the
the RFC-Editor that:
The RFC-Editor, during the editing process of an RFC that
contains a MIB Module, copies a short copyright statement
into the DESCRIPTION clause of the MODULE-IDENTITY macro
of each MIB Module in the RFC-to-be.
The copyright statement to be added is as follows:
"Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year). This version of
this MIB module is part of RFC xxxx, see the RFC itself for
full legal notices."
