manning bill wrote: > > however there are more than a decades worth of IDs that carry no > ISOC/IETF copyright. For those, the rights exist only with the authors. > As a condition of publication was the fact that they were > intended/expected to be ephemeral and the IETF right to publish > expired six months after initial publication. You might want to recheck the applicable copyright law terms. A "publication" has a significant impact of the amount of control the copyright holder has on what happens to a copyrighted works. In Germany, the legal term is "Erschöpfungsgrundsatz", in the US, a vaguely similar legal concept seems to exist under the name "first sale doctrine". -Martin