[ih] Who owns old RFCs ?

Stephen Casner casner at acm.org
Tue Apr 21 21:39:34 PDT 2020


On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:

> The trust agreement sec 5.2 encourages other parties to contribute
> rights relevant to the IETF, which I assume means copyrights in older
> RFCs or I-D's or licenses to them.  I have found no documentation that
> anyone ever did, but it's possible there's something lurking in an old
> archive.

I remember an effort many years ago to have early RFC authors sign a
hardcopy declaration releasing copyright or some such.  My faded
mental image of the place where I did this was Seattle or Vancouver.

                                                        -- Steve



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