Greetings! The purpose of this message is: 1) To advise you that the IETF Trustees are working to develop a policy for granting rights in IETF documents as required by draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-06.txt 2) To invite your review and comment on a draft version of the policy, and 3) To announce that the Trustees have requested the IPR WG convene during IETF 72 to take comments on the draft policy, face to face, in Dublin; the IPR WG meeting is scheduled to meet starting at 13h00 local time on Thursday, July 31st. The draft policy is available for your review in .doc, .pdf, and .txt formats at: http://trustee.ietf.org/policyandprocedures.html. Policy areas covered by this draft document are as follows: 1. Licenses to IETF Documents within the Standards Process 2. Licenses to IETF Documents outside the Standards Process 3. Licenses that are *not* granted 4. License to Code Components 5. Pre-Existing Documents 6. License Limitations 7. Text (i.e., "boilerplate") to be included in IETF Documents Please note that several portions of the text in the draft policy are enclosed in <special> brackets. This is to signify text where your thoughts and suggestions are particularly invited. The IETF Trustees would like to be in a position to formally adopt a policy soon after the publication of RFC[ipr-outbound-rights] and RFC[ipr-inbound-rights]. Your input will be appreciated. Please use the IPR WG mailing list for all discussion and comments on this draft. Best Regards, and Thanks in advance, Ed Juskevicius Ray Pelletier Chair Trustee IETF Trust IETF Administrative Director _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf