--On Saturday, March 26, 2016 08:40 +1300 Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's clear that any design team *output* is a contribution.
> But if a group of friends have a chat over lunch, not as a
> design team mandated by WG chairs, and one of them mentions a
> silly idea that is rejected in favour of a good idea that the
> group later proposes to the WG, is that silly idea a
> contribution? I don't think so.
+1. But what makes that output a Contribution is its injection
into the IETF process as an I-D, a WG discussion, a comment at a
plenary microphone, or mention on an IETF-related mailing list.
All of those are clearly Contributions even under 3979 and its
predecessors.
> All the same, I think the phrase "IETF-sanctioned" is
> redundant. A citation of RFC 2418 would be in order, perhaps.
Remember that we have a significant number of documents,
standards-track and otherwise, that do not come out of WGs and
that we have traditionally wanted to be covered by IPR
disclosure rules. 2418, AFAICT, is only about WGs.
john