the reason for copyrighting the standards produced by IETF is precisely to simultaneously allow IETF to derive new standards documents from the older ones and to have the ability to prohibit others from doing so without specific authorization. Vint At 09:15 AM 1/24/2003 -0500, Scott Bradner wrote: >> 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 Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax