Actually, the copyright notice covers more than just the boilerplate.
The authors retain their copyrights (there is no "transfer" of rights
as confuses some folks sometimes.)
However, the IETF needs a right to copy (a copyright) so as to
distribute, and work on, the Internet-Drafts and RFCs.
The text of the boilerplate grants us those rights.
Those rights are now invested in the IPR trust, and managed by the
trustees (who are also the IAOC.)
Making sure we get those rights correct goign forward is part of that
the IPR working group is dealing with.
Yours,
Joel
At 11:27 AM 3/5/2006, John C Klensin wrote:
The position taken over and over again in the
IPR WG is that the ISOC (or "Trust") copyright applies to the
boilerplate and structure, not to the substantive text and that
ISOC and the IETF use that text only by releases from the
authors.
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