RFC 3979: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology

The IETF policies about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), such as patent rights, relative to technologies developed in the IETF are designed to ensure that…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2028: The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process
Obsoletes — RFC 3668: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology
Normative reference — RFC 2418: IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures
Normative reference — RFC 3978: IETF Rights in Contributions
Informative reference — RFC 1790: An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 2339: An Agreement Between the Internet Society, the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 Protocols

Incoming relationships (20 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 4879: Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979
Obsoleted by — RFC 8179: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3978: IETF Rights in Contributions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5835: Framework for Metric Composition
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7451: Extension Registry for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6701: Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6702: Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6756: Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4775: Procedures for Protocol Extensions and Variations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4986: Requirements Related to DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchor Rollover
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7649: The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5741: RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5743: Definition of an Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Document Stream
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7841: RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7154: IETF Guidelines for Conduct
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8088: How to Write an RTP Payload Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4693: IETF Operational Notes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8717: IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Consolidated Updates to IETF Administrative Terminology
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4965: CableLabs - IETF Standardization Collaboration