> Behalf Of Simon Josefsson > The text in section 9.5 appear to me to make it permanently > impossible to incorporate portions of RFC in both free or > proprietary products. > I believe the requirement to give up all rights to derivative > works of the IETF IPR would be unacceptable to the Debian and > FreeBSD community. They are not in a legal position to grant > the Trust all rights to derivative works of the work that > include portions of RFCs. That raises a question that I have not seen answered yet. What is the purpose of the trust if not to attempt to prevent unauthorized derrivative works? Today it is possible to make a proposal to IETF process, have that WG implode (e.g. MARID) and then take the specification to an alternative forum. This might appear to some to be a good idea. In practice however the parties that might do such a thing are the parties that begin a standards process by asking the question 'what forum should we choose?'. It would be a very bad idea for the IETF to attempt to make that choice irrevocable. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf