On May 24, 2006, at 14:42, Russ Housley wrote:
> If the people with copyright interest are the
combination of the
> authors plus the contributors, then we need to specify
this in a BCP.
We might also want to suggest that the acknowledgment
specifically
indicate if someone contributed text, as a text-contributor
may have
rights that an idea-contributor does not. With the default
assumption being that "contributed", if not
clarified, means
"contributed text and/or ideas".
There's also the related issue of text taken from a
previous RFC -- I
would think it would suffice to acknowledge the source of
the text,
rather than merging contributor/author lists. (Though if
the
previous author list is small and the copied text is large,
specific,
explicit acknowledgment in the new document is probably the
polite
thing to do.) But either way, those authors may also retain
copyright interest in the new document.
> Does the RFC Editor have to contact the members of both
lists
> during Auth48? If so, I would suggest that the RFf
Editor only
> needs a positive reply from the authors, but that the
contributors
> only need to respond if they discover a change that is
needed.
I would think the RFC Editor probably does not need to;
after all,
isn't the short list also (a superset of) the people
already acting
as editors on behalf of the working group, other
contributors, etc?
Those people may choose to include various contributors in
the Auth48
review, or not.
Ken
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