Russ, I assume you mean:
When the MIB or PIB module is the initial version of a module that is to be maintained by the IANA, the following abbreviated notice shall be included:
"Copyright (C) The Internet Society <year>. The initial version of this MIB module was published in RFC XXXX; for full legal notices see the RFC itself or see: http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html.";
If so, then pls realize that we discussed this in the IESG quite extensively early this year, and that we had it reviewed by our IETF lawyer and the IANA lawyer. So it seems to be OK to me. We had it on our IESG agenda on April 3rd, 2003 under Management Issues. And we then approved it.
Anyway I would hate to break it open again. What we may need to be carefull with is to make sure it does not get changed, or if it does that it is clear what changes are amde and when and if they apply re-troactively or not.