IETF Rights in Contributions
RFC 3978, “IETF Rights in Contributions”, is a Best Current Practice document published in March 2005 by S. Bradner. It updates RFC 2026. It obsoletes RFC 3667. It has since been updated by RFC 4748. It has been obsoleted by RFC 5378 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The IETF policies about rights in Contributions to the IETF are designed to ensure that such Contributions can be made available to the IETF and Internet communities while permitting the authors to retain as many rights as possible. This memo details the IETF policies on rights in Contributions to the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo updates RFC 2026, and, with RFC 3979, replaces Section 10 of RFC 2026. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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- RFC 3979 Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology
- RFC 3976 Interworking SIP and Intelligent Network Applications
- RFC 3980 T11 Network Address Authority Naming Format for iSCSI Node Names
- RFC 3975 OMA-IETF Standardization Collaboration
- RFC 3981 IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service Core Protocol
- RFC 3974 SMTP Operational Experience in Mixed IPv4/v6 Environments
- RFC 3982 IRIS: A Domain Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service
- RFC 3973 Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode : Protocol Specification