Re: Telechat agenda topic: IANA MIB Copyright

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

Bert,

Has final agreement been achieved on the IANA MIB Copyright
proposal that was tentatively approved at the IESG meeting
of 20 Feb 2003?  This is relevant to the MIB Doctor review
of draft-ietf-ipsec-doi-tc-mib-07.txt and probably also to
the RFC Editor instructions for the printer MIB draft
draft-ietf-printmib-mib-info-15.txt and its companion
draft-mcdonald-iana-charset-mib-02.txt.  All three documents
have the usual standards-track MIB module copyright notice
in the MODULE-IDENTITY DESCRIPTION clause of IANA-maintained
MIB modules, and this needs to be fixed prior to publication.
It would be good to have the policy finalized (and an IESG
statement put on the IETF web site) so that we can give
authoritative instructions to authors of such drafts.

Thanks,

Mike

----------Original message ----------
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:20:34 +0100
From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
To: "Mike Heard (E-mail)" <heard@pobox.com>
Cc: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
Subject: Telechat agenda topic: IANA MIB Copyright

The IESG has today discussed the topic below.

The proposal is basically accepted, pending verification of
the page xxx (to be created) by our IETF lawyer. Also
IANA organisation wants to check if it is OK from their
side. So I cannot give you a final OK on this yet.

Bert
----------- proposal discussed in IESG ------

We recently made a IESG statement about MIB/PIB copyright
to be included in MIB modules as per:

    http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/MIB-COPYRIGHT.txt

The problem/issue has now been raised that the IANA maintained
MIB modules. We currently have 5 of those, and another 4 or so
are on the horizon.

The suggestion has been made to put in something like:

    Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year).  The
    initial version of this MIB module was published
    in coordination with RFC xxxx. For full legal
    notices see http://wwww.iana.org/xxx.

And then prepare a full copyright statement at that xxx web page.

There are also some IANA MIB modules that never were part of an
RFC. For those, I would suggest to make the statement:

    Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year).  For full legal
    notices see http://wwww.iana.org/xxx.

IANA would need to update the year (I think) once they make changes
in a new year.