> On Mar 11, 2015, at 7:21 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In article <BA3A23E0-18F0-4515-A760-4EF6DB1CD743@xxxxxxxxx> you write: >> The author is the owner, and the IETF Trust is granted an unlimited copyright. > > Uh, no. Other than my using the word copyright wrong, you (and RFC 5378) say the same thing. >>> What part of >>> >>> Copyright Notice >>> >>> Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the >>> document authors. All rights reserved. >>> >>> is unclear? > > Quite a lot, actually. But it's all explained in RFC 5378. > > Contributors hold the copyright to their drafts, and grant a broad but > limited license (which is not the same as a copyright) to the IETF > Trust. The final RFC is a derivative work made by the IETF from the > draft, which is why the RFC has a joint copyright notice. > > To return to the original question, the IETF has no obligation to > accept contributions from anyone. If we wanted to make a rule that > every I-D has to have the word "pickle" in the name, we could. And it’s high time we did.