Request for comments on proposed changes to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

Greetings;

The Trustees are proposing changes to the Legal Provisions Relating to  
IETF Documents effective September 12, 2009 (TLP 3.0).  This is a  
formal request for community review.  The review period will be for  
thirty days and end on November 24, 2009

The changes are required based upon a request from the RFC Editor on  
behalf of the Independent Submissions Stream, and from the IRTF  
Steering Group (IRSG) on behalf of the IRTF Stream (Alternate Streams)  
that the IETF Trust act as the license administrators for the RFCs  
produced by their streams.  The basic intent of these changes is to  
both make changes necessary to accept these new streams, and to make  
it possible for these new streams to operate under "Postel Rules."   
Additional minor changes are sought by the Trustees to clarify  
language in TLP 3.0.

The Trustees believe the following changes are necessitated by the  
request of the RFC Editor and IRSG,

a.  Section 1. -- eliminated reference to "IETF Standards Process" to  
broaden scope for Alternate Streams.  Also added a sentence  
acknowledging the addition of Alternate Streams.

b. Section 6.a -- deleted "to IETF" so that this legend can be used in  
Alternate Stream documents in a less confusing way.

c. Section 7.f -- removed references to IETF Standards Process to  
accommodate Alternate Stream usage.