Network Working Group S. Bradner Internet-Draft Harvard University Editor July 2005 Extracting RFCs Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html This Internet-Draft will expire on August 7, 2005. Abstract Many people have expressed a desire to extract material from IETF RFCs for use in documentation, textbooks, on-line help systems, and for similar uses. In addition, some IETF RFCs contain MIBs and other types of program code that could be compiled. This document proposes an update to RFC RFC3978 to explicitly permit extracting material for a wide range of uses. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society. (2005) 1. Introduction This Internet Draft proposes an addition to "IETF Rights in Bradner [Page 1] Internet-Draft RFC Extracts July 2005 Contributions" [RFC3978] to permit the extraction of material from IETF RFCs for a wide range of uses. This proposal assumes that the language proposed in draft-bradner-author-contributors-00.txt is also adopted. 2. Extractions from RFCs This memo proposes that the following paragraph be added to RFC RFC3978 as Section 3.3(c): c. To the extent that a Contribution or any portion thereof is protected by copyright and other rights of authorship, the Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, and the organization he or she represents or is sponsored by (if any) grant a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, and incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not limited to use within the IETF Standards Process) any portion of the Contribution as long as the extract is not modified (other than translated into languages other than English), proper acknowledgement is given and as long as the ISOC copyright notice is included. It also being understood that the licenses granted under this paragraph (c) shall not be deemed to grant any right under any patent, patent application or other similar intellectual property right. 3. References 5.1. Normative References [RFC 3978] Bradner, S., Ed., "IETF Rights in Contributions", BCP 78, RFC 3978, March 2005. 4. Editor's Address Scott Bradner Harvard University 29 Oxford St. Cambridge MA, 02138 Phone: +1 617 495 3864 EMail: sob@harvard.edu 5. Full copyright statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their Bradner [Page 2] Internet-Draft RFC Extracts July 2005 rights. 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