--On Monday, January 12, 2009 16:07 -0500 Russ Housley
<housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>...
> If the document is approved without change, then the RFC
> Editor will ask each of the authors to grant the additional
> rights required by RFC 5378. If this cannot be done, then the
> document will sit in the queue until some work-around like the
> one being discussed on this thread is implemented.
Russ, the RFC Editor does not, in general, know about any
Contributors other than listed authors and has never been tasked
with figuring that out. Does the above imply that the Trustees
have made a determination, with the advice of Counsel, that it
is safe and appropriate to interpret the 5378 rules wrt older
text such that only listed authors are relevant to obtaining
necessary rights? Has the RFC Editor been advised of that
determination?
I ask only because of my continuing concern that a fix/patch
will be adopted with the best of intentions all around but then
will turn out to not cover enough cases to make it really useful.
john
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