John C, Klensin writes... > The point is that different countries have different rules, > different names for the rules, and different criteria. Right. I should have said "fair use" or whatever the corresponding legal doctrine is called in your jurisdiction. Is there a generic, jurisdiction-independent term for this doctrine? > * The current and former policies focus on getting people to > give the IETF (and IETF Trust) whatever rights they need, not on > making would-be users of text spend energy trying to figure out > what they can and cannot appropriate without those rights. Sure. > * This debate, and the workaround, are really about what rights > I have to claim that I have, or have obtained, to give to the > IETF. I'm trying to figure out what specific guidance, in the form of a step-by-step procedure, I can give to my WG so that draft authors can identify whether or not they need to include the workaround boilerplate. I don't want each of them to have to understand all the nuances of this debate, nor contact personal / corporate counsel in the process. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf