RFC 5744 · INFORMATIONAL · 2009

Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream

Overview

RFC 5744, “Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream”, is an Informational document published in December 2009 by R. Braden, J. Halpern. It updates RFC 4846. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies the procedures by which authors of RFC Independent Submission documents grant the community "incoming" rights for copying and using the text. It also specifies the "outgoing" rights the community grants to readers and users of those documents, and it requests that the IETF Trust manage the outgoing rights to effect this result. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC updates
RFC 4846
Other RFCs from 2009

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