John, I believe you read the consensus right. "authors obtain all of
the rights they are willing to".
Excerpts from John C Klensin on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 07:35:55PM -0400:
> Hi.
>
> I just attended the IPR ("Pre-5398 Problem") BOF and want to
> share an impression and suggestion.
>
> While one could debate details of text and procedures endlessly,
> reopen old battles, etc., there is really only one issue at
> this point, and that issue is whether the community wants to
>
> * try to accelerate the transition toward 5378 by
> obligating authors to make a serious attempt to get
> signoff from previous contributors or
>
> * treat documents that contain pre-5398 material as
> provided for in the workaround, i.e., authors obtain all
> of the rights if they are willing to do that but
> otherwise just insert the workaround text and move on.
>
> >From reading the correspondence on the list, I believe that the
> community prefers the latter although the former has some strong
> advocates. I'd like to see if we can focus on those questions
> to see if a conclusion can be reached about the principle before
> more Internet-Drafts are written.
>
> I note that, if the community's preference is really the second
> choice, then we are finished. The Trustees would presumably
> follow the general rough consensus on this list, interpret the
> existing workaround as permanent, and we would all move on.
>
> IMO, "finished" would be a big win -- no more I-Ds on the
> subject, no need for a new or renewed WG, no more cycles of
> people with better ways to spend their IETF time going into
> these efforts, etc.
>
> Of course, YMMD.
> john
>
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