IANA MIB modules and COPYRIGHT

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

The IESG has reached consensus w.r.t. IANA maintained MIB
Modules as follows:

In the IESG meeting of 2003, Feb 20th, 

   The IESG discussed if new IANA-maintained MIB modules
   should be published as (part of) an RFC. The consensus 
   is that the initial version indeed is to be in an RFC.
   The version in that RFC MUST make sure that some a
   statement is made that the authoritative version of
   the IANA-maintained MIB module is at the IANA web pages.

In the IESG meeting of 2003, April 3rd, 

   The IESG, after consultation with IANA, reached consensus
   on a policy for copyright statements in IANA maintained
   MIB modules.

The web page pointed to below will be created in the next few days.
I will work with IANA to update their current IANA maintained MIB
modules over the next few weeks.

Bert Wijnen
co-AD for the IETF Operations and Management Area

---- Copyright statements for IANA maintained MIB modules ---

An IANA maintained MIB module must have the following text in
the DESCRIPTION clause of the MODULE-IDENTITY macro:
 
      Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year).  The
      initial version of this MIB module was published
      in RFC xxxx. For full legal notices see the RFC
      itself or see:  http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html
 

The text at http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html is as follows:

  Full Copyright Statement for IANA maintained MIB modules.

  Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003).  All Rights Reserved.

  An IANA MIB module and translations of it may be copied and furnished
  to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain
  it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
  and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
  kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
  included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this MIB
  module itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
  the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
  Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
  developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
  copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
  followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
  English.

  The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
  revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.

  This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
  "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
  TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
  BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
  HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.