> However, unless > I'm severely confused (which is always possible), the prohibition against > derivative works came from the ITU side of the fence, the prohibition is more not used all that often - two main cases where is is 1/ vendor work publish for the information of the community 2/ republishing a standard from another SDO just like we would not want the ITU "fixing" an IETF standard w/o our input it seems a reasonable desire to not have the IETF "fix" an ITU (or ETSI etc) standard w/o their involvement Scott