Dave, On 2008-12-18 11:32, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... > My assumption was not that the work was "available" for "IETF use". Correct. > > My assumption was that the IETF owned the work. Pure and simple. False. You never implicitly transferred ownership. > > The IETF was free to do whatever the hell if felt like with the work and > I retained no rights. Use it. Give it to another group. Specifically, "Give it to another group." was never covered until 5378. That's the entire problem. Brian > Kill it. > Whatever. > > Really. That's the cultural basis that I believe formed this community > and informed participants in it. > > d/ > > ps. Well, to be more complete, I assumed that IETF ownership meant that > the document was required to be publicly available and -- though I > didn't know the term at the time -- there was public permission for > derivative works by whoever felt like doing the deriving. > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf