FW: Telechat agenda topic: IANA MIB Copyright

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Not sure who will be checking with IETF Lawyer.

Here is the complete text.

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.

The full legal notice as to show up at http://wwww.iana.org/xxx
is the following:

   Full Copyright Statement for IANA maintained MIB modules.

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003).  All Rights Reserved.

   An IANA MIB module and translations of it may be copied and furnished
   to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain
   it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
   and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
   kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
   included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this MIB
   module itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
   the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
   Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
   developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
   copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
   followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
   English.

   The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
   revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.

   This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
   "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
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