2.2.6 currently reads:
The right to use any intellectual property rights created by any IASA-related or IETF activity may not be withheld or limited in any way by ISOC from the IETF.
I suggest inserting the word "irrevocable" before the word "right." That covers us in the case of blowing the bolts.
You could simply append:
As a matter of principle the IAOC and IAD should ensure that any contracts for IASA clearly designate that any software, databases, and websites should be openly available, including open source for software and a machine-readable format for databases, whenever possible.
I think this is OK as is.
Brian
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on 2004-12-02 9:58 am Brian E Carpenter said the following:
Scott Bradner wrote:
the new draft asks: Do we need wording about the ownership of IETF tools and data? We have some text (in Section 2.2) about IPR, but does that fully cover tools and data?
fwiw - my intention in the text that is now 2.2(6) was to cover the tools and data
Subject to legal advice, that seems OK to me. But maybe we should make a word or two to make the rights irrevocable.
I'm not sure if the current text clearly implies that tools created for the IASA by a contractor, and data collected for the IASA by a contractor shall be openly available.
And maybe a separate point, would it be desirable when we talk about tools and data in particular, to specify that the IASA must ensure that tools developed by a contractor for the IETF or IASA must be open source, and that data collected by a contractor for the IETF or IASA must be available in a documented machine-readable format? Or is this to go into too much details...
Henrik
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