7. Exposition of Why These Procedures Are the Way They Are

7.1. Rights Granted in IETF Contributions

   The IETF/ISOC must obtain the right to publish an IETF Contribution
   as an RFC or an Internet-Draft from the Contributors.

   A primary objective of this policy is to obtain from the document
   authors only the non-exclusive rights that are needed to develop and
   publish IETF Documents and to use the IETF Contributions in the IETF
   Standards Process while leaving all other rights with the authors.

   The non-exclusive rights that the IETF needs are:

   a. the right to publish the document
   b. the right to let the document be freely reproduced in the formats
      that the IETF publishes it in
   c. the right to let third parties translate it into languages other
      than English
   d. except where explicitly excluded (see Section 5.2), the right to
      make derivative works within the IETF process.
   e. the right to let third parties extract some logical parts, for
      example MIB modules

   The authors retain all other rights, but cannot withdraw the above
   rights from the IETF/ISOC.

7.2. Rights to use Contributed Material

   Because, under the laws of most countries and applicable
   international treaties, copyright rights come into existence whenever
   a work of authorship is created (but see Section 8 below regarding
   public domain documents), and IETF cannot make use of IETF
   Contributions if it does not have sufficient rights with respect to
   these copyright rights, it is important that the IETF receive
   assurances from all Contributors that they have the authority to
   grant the IETF the rights that they claim to grant.  Without this
   assurance, IETF and its participants would run a greater risk of
   liability to the owners of these rights.

   To this end, IETF asks Contributors to give the assurances in Section
   3.4 above.  These assurances are requested, however, only to the
   extent of the Contributor's reasonable and personal knowledge.  (See
   Section 1(l))

7.3. Right to Produce Derivative Works

   The IETF needs to be able to evolve IETF Documents in response to
   experience gained in the deployment of the technologies described in
   such IETF Documents, to incorporate developments in research and to
   react to changing conditions on the Internet and other IP networks.
   In order to do this the IETF must be able to produce derivatives of
   its documents; thus the IETF must obtain the right from Contributors
   to produce derivative works.  Note though that the IETF only requires
   this right for the production of derivative works within the IETF
   Standards Process.  The IETF does not need, nor does it obtain, the
   right to let derivative works be created outside of the IETF
   Standards Process other than as noted in Section 3.3 (E).

   The right to produce derivative works is required for all IETF
   standards track documents and for most IETF non-standards track
   documents.  There are two exceptions to this requirement:  documents
   describing proprietary technologies and documents that are
   republications of the work of other standards organizations.

   The right to produce derivative works must be granted in order for an
   IETF working group to accept an IETF Contribution as a working group
   document or otherwise work on it.  For non-working group IETF
   Contributions where the Contributor requests publication as a
   standards track RFC the right to produce derivative works must be
   granted before the IESG will issue an IETF Last-Call and, for most
   non-standards track non-working group IETF Contributions, before the
   IESG will consider the Internet-Draft for publication.

   Occasionally a Contributor may not want to grant publication rights
   or the right to produce derivative works before finding out if an
   IETF Contribution has been accepted for development in the IETF
   Standards Process.  In these cases the Contributor may include the
   Derivative Works Limitation described in Section 5.2 and the
   Publication Limitation described in Section 5.3 in their IETF
   Contribution.  A working group can discuss the Internet-Draft with
   the aim to decide if it should become a working group document, even
   though the right to produce derivative works or to publish the IETF
   Contribution as an RFC has not yet been granted.  If the IETF
   Contribution is accepted for development the Contributor must then
   resubmit the IETF Contribution without the limitation notices before
   a working group can formally adopt the IETF Contribution as a working
   group document.

   The IETF has historically encouraged organizations to publish details
   of their technologies, even when the technologies are proprietary,
   because understanding how existing technology is being used helps
   when developing new technology.  But organizations that publish
   information about proprietary technologies are frequently not willing
   to have the IETF produce revisions of the technologies and then claim
   that the IETF version is the "new version" of the organization's
   technology.  Organizations that feel this way can specify that an
   IETF Contribution can be published with the other rights granted
   under this document but may withhold the right to produce derivative
   works other than translations.  The right to produce translations is
   required before any IETF Contribution can be published as an RFC to
   ensure the widest possible distribution of the material in RFCs.

   In addition, IETF Documents frequently make normative references to
   standards or recommendations developed by other standards
   organizations.  Since the publications of some standards
   organizations are not public documents, it can be quite helpful to
   the IETF to republish, with the permission of the other standards
   organization, some of these documents as RFCs so that the IETF
   community can have open access to them to better understand what they
   are referring to.  In these cases the RFCs can be published without
   the right for the IETF to produce derivative works.

   In both of the above cases in which the production of derivative
   works is excluded, the Contributor must include a special legend in
   the IETF Contribution, as specified in Section 5.2, in order to
   notify IETF participants about this restriction.

7.4. Rights to Use Trademarks

   Contributors may wish to seek trademark or service mark protection on
   any terms that are coined or used in their IETF Contributions.  IETF
   makes no judgment about the validity of any such trademark rights.
   However, the IETF requires each Contributor, under the licenses
   described in Section 3.3 above, to grant IETF a perpetual license to
   use any such trademarks or service marks solely in exercising its
   rights to reproduce, publish and modify the IETF Contribution.  This
   license does not authorize any IETF participant to use any trademark
   or service mark in connection with any product or service offering,
   but only in the context of IETF Documents and discussions.

7.5. Who Does This Apply To?

   Rights and licenses granted to the IETF under this document are
   granted to all individuals noted in Section 1(a), irrespective of
   their employment or institutional affiliation.  However, these
   licenses do not extend broadly to the employers, sponsors or
   institutions of such individuals, nor do they authorize the
   individuals to exercise any rights outside the specific context of
   the IETF Standards Process.