At 1:38 PM +1300 1/15/09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >On 2009-01-15 13:32, Randy Presuhn wrote: >> Hi - >> >> I originally asked this question on the WG chairs' list, and >> was asked to ask again here... >> >> The discussion about RFC 5378 (what little I've been able to >> understand of it, anyway) has focussed on I-Ds and RFCs. >> However, the definition of "contribution" in that document >> includes, among other things, mailing list discussions. >> >> Does this mean that we need to get contributor permission >> before using, for example, material from a pre-5378 RFC in >> a mailing list discussion, or before including text from a >> pre-5378 email posting in an internet draft? >> >> This seems really silly, but that's what the discussion is >> starting to sound like to me. > >IANAL, but it seems to me that we should proceed on the assumption >that this would fall under fair use provisions. Anything else >would seem unreasonable to me. IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this thread, but the phrase "fair use" does not appear in RFC 5378. Maybe it should. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf