Re: List moderator action

Rob Sayre <[email protected]> Wed, 6 May 2026 07:40:48 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <CAChr6Swp14q7vd68BhYm1d+k6gcqUvwMkc1ixPo4Mno_F4KXDw@mail.gmail.com>
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> > Which part of BCP 78 prevents me from disallowing derivative works of
> any IETF contribution (like this email)? (which I am not doing, because I
> am not an epic pain)
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> I’ve explained it to you before [1] [2].
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That does not explain it.

A "Contribution" (section 1.a) is defined here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5378#section-1

So, anything addressed to the IETF. Section 3.3 is not only about
documents. Even Scott Bradner wrote that attaching such a clause to
non-document Contributions was odd, but not disallowed. (it should be
disallowed)

After all, if the document were clear on this point, we could cite the RFC,
rather than an IESG Statement.

thanks,
Rob