On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:21 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for the clarity, John. That was what I thought, but I was too lazy to go look it up. :)