Re: Copyright, Privacy, Confidentiality Statements on Submissions to the IETF

["todd glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

Jorge

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <brc at zurich.ibm.com>
To: "Contreras, Jorge" <Jorge.Contreras at wilmerhale.com>
Cc: <ipr-wg at ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Copyright, Privacy, Confidentiality Statements on Submissions 
to the IETF


> As I recall, we adopted that formulation because some poor souls
> are hidden behind corporate mail systems that forcibly attach
> boilerplate, and we didn't want to prevent such victims from
> posting.
>
>     Brian

Even when that boilerplate specifically says that the Email Operator (the 
sponsor) retains all ownership in the mail and its content? Seems to me that 
any formal email policy which is printed in the boilerplate of the email 
trumps the Note-Well rules in the submissions process but what the hell...



T.


> On 2007-04-03 15:08, Contreras, Jorge wrote:
> > Russ,
> >
> > See Section 3.2 of RFC 3978, last sentence:
> >  "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether
> >    generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the
> >    Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be
> >    disregarded for all purposes, and will be of no force or effect."
> >  Jorge
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Russ Housley [mailto:housley at vigilsec.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:54 AM
> > > To: ipr-wg at ietf.org
> > > Subject: Copyright, Privacy, Confidentiality Statements on Submissions
> > > to the IETF
> > >
> > >
> > > I have been seeing more and more email postings that have privacy or 
> > > confidentiality statements at the bottom.  I have not seen copyright on 
> > > slides or email message.  Maybe that is happening too.
> > >
> > > The IEEE 802.1 opening materials included the following statement:
> > >
> > >     * Copyright statements or privacy/confidentiality
> > >       statements of any kind SHALL NOT APPEAR on
> > >       any contributions to 802, either in emails or in
> > >       presentation material
> > >
> > > Does the IETF have a similar statement?  If it is in our Note Well, then 
> > > it is in one of the references.
> > >
> > > Russ
> > >
> > >
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