Re: IETF legal boilerplate

For the rest of the group, we think that this issue is now resolved.

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email protected]> writes:

> In this case, my understanding of copyright law would say that if
> Charles or Henry Spencer were to object to submission under RFC 5378,
> they would have standing to do so; the requirement from RFC 5378 that
> they have "materially and substantially" contributed would leave most of
> the rest of us without a copyright to assert.

That I think is the main call that needed to be made, and that I wasn't at
all sure how to make.  That's a tractable set of people; I was worried
that the definition of substantially would cast a much wider net.  A lot
of people have offered wording suggestions.

> Understood. Since the only person left to do the bookkeeping is the WG
> chair, I guess it's my job.

Thank you very much for taking this on, and I'm sorry to have dumped it in
your lap.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>