> On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The author is the owner, and the IETF Trust is granted an unlimited copyright. > > That doesn't make sense. The owner is the person who is named in the copyright. If the copyright refers to the IETF trust, then the IETF trust is being called the owner. Making sense is never a requirement where the law is concerned. RFC 5378 says in section 3.1 (Rights Granted in Contributions): The IETF Trust and the IETF must obtain the right to publish an IETF Contribution as an RFC or an Internet-Draft from the Contributors. ... The authors retain all other rights, but cannot withdraw the above rights from the IETF Trust and the IETF.