On 2009-01-11 10:55, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> Er, is that a Last Call comment on draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights >> and draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming? A bit late, if so. > > Brian, "too late" makes sense for stray comments. > > It doesn't make sense when we discover that a spec doesn't work. There > have been quite a few comments and events that make concretely clear > that this 'spec' doesn't work, and that the proposed fix introduces > significant new problems, even assuming that it 'fixes' the primary > problem. I haven't seen anything to suggest that the new copyright regime doesn't work for all-new documents, or for documents whose original contributors have agreed to the new regime. > > >>> and layering onto it a hack that imposes even more impact, is >>> not a fix. >> >> Look, the IPR WG, and all those who reviewed its drafts, including >> me, missed that fact that there was a transition problem that should >> have been covered in those drafts. I'm sorry, I made a mistake, as >> Basil Fawlty once said. We need to fix that mistake. > > You keep referring to this as a 'transition' problem as if that > minimizes the problem. Even assuming that the label is formally > correct, it's clear that there is nothing brief about the transition nor > minimal about the impact. > > Like most infrastructure changes, "transition" is a strategic, long-term > concern. Yes. I have IPv6-shaped scars to prove that. That's exactly why I support the notion of a short-term fix to give us time to agree on an enduring solution. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf