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RFC 8179, "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology", May 2017

Errata ID:5311
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Stuart Cheshire
Date Reported: 2018-03-28
Verifier Name: Lars Eggert
Date Verified: 2021-03-31

Section 5.4.2. says:

an IPRdisclosure must be updated or a new disclosure made promptly afterany of the following has occurred: ...(4) a material change to the IETFDocument covered by the Disclosure that causes the Disclosure tobe covered by additional IPR.

It should say:

an IPRdisclosure must be updated or a new disclosure made promptly afterany of the following has occurred: ...(4) a material change to the IETFDocument covered by the Disclosure that causes the *Document* tobe covered by additional IPR.

Notes:

The changed word is indicated by asterisks. Section 5.4.2 (Updating IPR Disclosures) of RFC 8179 is talking about IPR that covers IETF Documents, not IPR that covers IETF Disclosures.

Errata ID:5312
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Stuart Cheshire
Date Reported: 2018-03-28
Verifier Name: Lars Eggert
Date Verified: 2021-03-31

Section 5.7 says:

If a Contribution is oral and is not followed promptly by a writtendisclosure of the same material, and if such oral Contribution wouldbe subject to a requirement that an IPR Disclosure be made (had suchoral Contribution been written), then the Contributor must accompanysuch oral Contribution with an oral declaration that he/she is awareof relevant IPR in as much detail as reasonably possible or file anIPR Declaration with respect to such oral Contribution that otherwisecomplies with the provisions of Sections 5.1 to 5.6 above.

It should say:

If a Contribution is oral and is not followed promptly by a written*Contribution* of the same material, and if such oral Contribution wouldbe subject to a requirement that an IPR Disclosure be made (had suchoral Contribution been written), then the Contributor must accompanysuch oral Contribution with an oral declaration that he/she is awareof relevant IPR in as much detail as reasonably possible or file anIPR Declaration with respect to such oral Contribution that otherwisecomplies with the provisions of Sections 5.1 to 5.6 above.

Notes:

The changed word is indicated by asterisks. RFC 8179 provides clear definitions of the terms it uses, particularly the important term “Contribution”. In this case, Section 5.7 (Disclosures for Oral Contributions) is talking very specifically about a written “Contribution”, as defined in Section 1, not a “disclosure”. This interpretation of what this text was intending to say is supported by the (non-normative) change summary given in Section 13, which says, “However, if an oral contribution is made and it is not followed by a written contribution, then...” Note use of the term, “written contribution”, not “written disclosure”.

Errata ID:8129
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: John Scudder
Date Reported: 2024-10-02
Verifier Name: RFC Editor
Date Verified: 2024-10-07

Section 1 says:

m. "Reasonably and personally known": something an individual knows

It should say:

n. "Reasonably and personally known": something an individual knows

Notes:

The list has items a through m, then m repeats, then skips directly to the final item, o. From context it’s clear the quoted item should have been n, continuing the sequence in the usual way.

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