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Network Working Group                                        S. Bradner
Internet-Draft                                       Harvard University
                                                                 Editor
                                                              July 2005

                            Extracting RFCs

                  <draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-01.txt>

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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



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   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



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      rights.

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