Greetings;
The Trustees are proposing changes to the Legal Provisions Relating to
IETF Documents effective September 12, 2009 (TLP 3.0). This is a
formal request for community review. The review period will be for
thirty days and end on November 24, 2009
The changes are required based upon a request from the RFC Editor on
behalf of the Independent Submissions Stream, and from the IRTF
Steering Group (IRSG) on behalf of the IRTF Stream (Alternate Streams)
that the IETF Trust act as the license administrators for the RFCs
produced by their streams. The basic intent of these changes is to
both make changes necessary to accept these new streams, and to make
it possible for these new streams to operate under "Postel Rules."
Additional minor changes are sought by the Trustees to clarify
language in TLP 3.0.
The Trustees believe the following changes are necessitated by the
request of the RFC Editor and IRSG,
a. Section 1. -- eliminated reference to "IETF Standards Process" to
broaden scope for Alternate Streams. Also added a sentence
acknowledging the addition of Alternate Streams.
b. Section 6.a -- deleted "to IETF" so that this legend can be used in
Alternate Stream documents in a less confusing way.
c. Section 7.f -- removed references to IETF Standards Process to
accommodate Alternate Stream usage.
d. Section 8.a -- this paragraph provides some background/context for
readers who have not been following the Alternate Stream discussion.
It references RFC 4844 (which defines the Alternate Streams).
e. Section 8.b -- this paragraph says that Alternate Stream managers
(as defined in 4844) can request that the IETF Trust act as the
licensing administrator for their Alternate Stream documents, and that
the Trust will do this, acting in accordance with their request and
the Trust's legal obligations.
f. Section 8.c -- this paragraph contains the basic license grants for
the Alternate Streams. Essentially, Alternate Stream contributions
are licensed TO the Trust on the terms of 5378, and are licensed BY
the Trust on the terms of the TLP (subject to any exceptions noted in
later paragraphs).
g. Section 8.d -- IMPORTANT: clarifies that Alternate Stream
contributors must ensure that they have all necessary rights to make
their contributions, including the right to contribute previously-
published material. There is no pre-5378 legend/carve-out for
Alternate Stream documents, and authors of contributions in these
streams take full responsibility for the entire contents of their
contributions, whether or not they re-use older material. This is a
different approach than for IETF Contributions, which have the
pre-5378 legend escape-valve for older material.
h. Section 8.e - g -- there is a separate paragraph for each of the
IAB, Independent and IRTF streams. Each of their "requests" to the
Trust is made in a separate document and may have a different
effective date, so it seemed cleaner to treat them separately. In
each of these paragraphs there is a clause stating that there are no
limits on making derivative works of these documents unless specific
no-derivatives legends are included.
The changes requested by the Trustees are as follows:
i. Section 2.c -- bug fix: first reference was to contributions and
documents, second was only to documents. "Contributions" was added
for parallel construction.
j. Sections 4.e, 6.b and 6.d -- added "Simplified" before "BSD
License" for consistent usage.
The proposed revisions as TLP 4.0 are in rtf, pdf and doc formats and
located at: http://trustee.ietf.org/policyandprocedures.html under
Draft Policies and Procedures for IETF Documents. There is also a 3.0
diff file in doc and pdf formats at the same location.
The discussion of these proposed changes is taking place on the TLP-
interest mailing list. One may subscribe to the TLP mailing list at: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tlp-interest
If during the 30 day community review period the proposal is revised,
the Trust may withdraw or modify the proposal, publish it and reset
the counter to begin a new 30 day review period before the comment
period is over.
If textual changes are needed after the 30 day community review
period, the Trust may modify the proposal, publish it and announce a
14 day review period.
Please accept this message as a formal request by the IETF Trustees
for your review and feedback on the proposed revision to the TLP
document. The comment period will end on November 24, 2009.
Regards, and thanks in advance,
Marshall Eubanks
IETF Trust Chair
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