3. Rights in IETF Contributions
The following are the rights the IETF requires in all IETF
Contributions:
3.1. General Policy
In all matters of copyright and document procedures, the intent is to
benefit the Internet community and the public at large, while
respecting the legitimate rights of others.
No information or document that is subject to any requirement of
confidentiality or any restriction on its dissemination may be
submitted as a Contribution or otherwise considered in any part of
the IETF Standards Process, and there must be no assumption of any
confidentiality obligation with respect to any Contribution. Each
Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether
generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the
Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be
disregarded for all purposes, and will be of no force or effect.
3.3. Granting of Rights and Permissions
By submission of a Contribution, each person actually submitting the
Contribution, and each named co-Contributor, is deemed to agree to
the following terms and conditions, and to grant the following
rights, on his or her own behalf and on behalf of the organization
the Contributor represents or is sponsored by (if any) when
submitting the Contribution.
a. 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 the ISOC and the IETF under all intellectual
property rights in the Contribution:
(A) to copy, publish, display, and distribute the Contribution as
part of the IETF Standards Process or in an Internet-Draft,
(B) to prepare or allow the preparation of translations of the
Contribution into languages other than English,
(C) unless explicitly disallowed in the notices contained in a
Contribution [as per Section 5.2 below], to prepare derivative
works (other than translations) that are based on or
incorporate all or part of the Contribution, or comment upon
it, within the IETF Standards Process. The license to such
derivative works not granting the ISOC and the IETF any more
rights than the license to the original Contribution,
(D) to reproduce any trademarks, service marks or trade names
which are included in the Contribution solely in connection
with the reproduction, distribution or publication of the
Contribution and derivative works thereof as permitted by this
paragraph. When reproducing Contributions, the IETF will
preserve trademark and service mark identifiers used by the
Contributor of the Contribution, including (TM) and (R) where
appropriate, and
(E) to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, modify and
incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not limited
to use within the IETF Standards Process) any executable code
or code fragments that are included in any IETF Document (such
as MIB and PIB modules), subject to the requirements of
Section 5 (it also being understood that the licenses granted
under this paragraph (E) shall not be deemed to grant any
right under any patent, patent application or other similar
intellectual property right disclosed by the Contributor under
[RFC3979]).
b. The Contributor grants the IETF and ISOC permission to reference
the name(s) and address(es) of the Contributor(s) and of the
organization(s) s/he represents or is sponsored by (if any).
3.4. Representations and Warranties
With respect to each Contribution, each Contributor represents that
to the best of his or her knowledge and ability:
a. The Contribution properly acknowledges all major Contributors. A
major Contributor is any person who has materially or
substantially contributed to the IETF Contribution.
b. No information in the Contribution is confidential and the IETF,
ISOC, and its affiliated organizations may freely disclose any
information in the Contribution.
c. There are no limits to the Contributor's ability to make the
grants, acknowledgments and agreements herein that are reasonably
and personally known to the Contributor.
d. The Contributor has not intentionally included in the Contribution
any material which is defamatory or untrue or which is illegal
under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Contributor has
his or her principal place of business or residence.
e. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and other proprietary
names used in the Contribution that are reasonably and personally
known to the Contributor are clearly designated as such where
reasonable.
3.5. No Duty to Publish
The Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, acknowledges that the
IETF has no duty to publish or otherwise use or disseminate any
Contribution. The IETF reserves the right to withdraw or cease using
any Contribution that does not comply with the requirements of
Section 3.4 and Section 3.3 or 4.2.
3.6. Trademarks
Contributors, and each named co-Contributor, who claim trademark
rights in terms used in their IETF Contributions are requested to
state specifically what conditions apply to implementers of the
technology relative to the use of such trademarks. Such statements
should be submitted in the same way as is done for other intellectual
property claims. (See [RFC3979] Section 6.)
