Re: [802.1] RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-bridge-8021x-02.txt

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, K.C. Norseth wrote:
> I did question the copyright when I placed it in the mib, I
> guess the benefit of this problem is that we will get the powers
> that be to decide how to handle this in future rfc's.

Indeed.  There has been some discussion of the issue on the ipr-wg
mailing list ... see the thread starting with

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/ipr-wg/current/msg01839.html

and in particular see

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/ipr-wg/current/msg01859.html

> In summary, so far, I am seeing 2 alternatives:
> 1  Change the copyright to fit what the IEEE lawyers and IETF lawyers
> decide.
> 2: Remove the mib and reference the document in the IEEE website.
> 
> There are corrections that needed to happen on the mib to make
> it compile (please ignore my screw up on the complile.).  If we
> want to point to the IEEE website, those changes need to be
> fixed.
> 
> Point #1 still needs to be addressed on how we address this.  
> Once this is addressed, I think that #1 will be the best
> soution.

I agree with all of these points.

Mike