Topic is "5378 update" not: RE: syslog for oceanographic event logging? (fwd)

Hi,

David, Rainer and I were having a conversation with an oceanographer about 
using the RFC syslog in that environment.  So, there's two parts of good 
news:
- the oceanographers are positive about using the RFC syslog, and
- David's news below.

:-)
Thanks,
Chris

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, David Harrington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is directed to the document editors, but I am copying the WG so
> they know what is happening.
>
> The Copyright boilerplate for new documents has been changed to permit
> the IETF to allow other organizations more ways of handling RFC text.
> One of the main goals of the changes is to enable more flexible
> licensing to meet the needs of open source developers and needs of
> other standards development organizations. But some legal issues arose
> for documents containing substantial text from pre-november-2008
> documents. So the IETF and the IETF Trust have been working to provide
> a new option for this class of document.
>
> XML2RFC has not yet been updated because there are many conditionals
> to the copyright boilerplate, and the xml2rfc maintainers are trying
> to figure out how many switches they need to spit the various
> combinations of text. I think xml2rfc 1.34 will be out this week.
> Marshall Rose has asked for a definitive answer from "the people in
> charge"  so they can finalize the xml2rfc update.
>
> There is ongoing debate about who is "in charge" of this issue though.
> Neither IAB nor IESG nor the IETF Trust nor the IAOC has full
> authority for the changes to both internet-drafts and RFCs, so they're
> all working together to sort out this difficult problem.
>
> Since we are not dependent on these documents for an IETF74 session,
> and our next revisions will be turned into unalterable RFCs, I
> recommend the WG editors wait the few extra days so we get it right.
>
> I will keep the WG updated.
>
> David Harrington
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
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