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RFC 3978: IETF Rights in Contributions

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 5378.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 5378 — Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

The IETF policies about rights in Contributions to the IETF are designed to ensure that such Contributions can be made available to the IETF and Internet communities while permitting the authors to retain as many rights as possible. This memo details the IETF policies on rights in Contributions to the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo updates RFC 2026, and, with RFC 3979, replaces Section 10 of RFC 2026. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

Document record

Document ID
RFC3978
Published
March 2005
Authors
S. Bradner
Status
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Stream
IETF
Area
gen
Pages
18
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 3667
Obsoleted by:
RFC 5378
Updates:
RFC 2026
Updated by:
RFC 4748

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 3667 (2004)
  2. RFC 3978 (2005)
  3. RFC 4748 (2006)
  4. RFC 5378 (2008) ✓

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