A small update to BCP 78 was recently approved by the IESG as RFC 4748, to update the boilerplate (i.e., standard legal text) in RFCs and Internet-Drafts to recognize the IETF Trust as a rights holder, instead of ISOC. The actual boilerplate changes are given below this message. Starting as soon as reasonably possible, all authors of Internet-Drafts are requested to use the new boilerplate. The RFC Editor will in any case be inserting it in all RFCs issued from 2006-11-01. (The rights held by ISOC in older RFCs will be administratively transferred to the IETF Trust.) The public ID Nits checker already accepts I-Ds with old or new boilerplate. The Secretariat has started accepting I-Ds with old or new boilerplate XML2RFC version 1.32 will generate the new boilerplate. Users of I-D templates are requested to update them appropriately. http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html and http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.html are being updated. Starting December, the public ID Nits checker will issue warnings for old boilerplate. Starting February 2007, the Secretariat will refuse the old boilerplate in Internet-Drafts. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this change cannot be avoided. IETF Chair IETF Secretariat TOOLS Team -------- Copyright Notice (required for all IETF Documents) (Normally placed at the end of the IETF Document.) NOTE: by convention, the first line of the copyright statement is usually placed near the beginning of each document. This must also be updated. OLD "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. NEW "Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (year). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. Disclaimer (required in all IETF Documents) (Normally placed at the end of the IETF Document after the copyright notice.) OLD "This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE." NEW "This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE." Exceptions In MIB modules, PIB modules and similar material commonly extracted from IETF Documents, except for material that is being placed under IANA maintenance, the following abbreviated notice shall be included in the body of the material that will be extracted in lieu of the notices otherwise required by Section 5: OLD "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." NEW "Copyright (C) The IETF Trust <year>. This version of this MIB module is part of RFC XXXX; see the RFC itself for full legal notices." When the MIB or PIB module is the initial version of a module that is to be maintained by the IANA, the following abbreviated notice shall be included: OLD "Copyright (C) The Internet Society <year>. The initial version of this MIB module was published in RFC XXXX; for full legal notices see the RFC itself. Supplementary information may be available at: http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html."; NEW "Copyright (C) The IETF Trust <year>. The initial version of this MIB module was published in RFC XXXX; for full legal notices see the RFC itself. Supplementary information may be available at: http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html."; _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
