IETF Trust Chair Report

Ed Juskeviciusedj@nortel.com

July 31, 2008

Dublin, Ireland

July 31, 2008 IETF 72 Dublin 2

IETF Trust Actions since Philadelphia

Administrative items:

Minutes of Trustee's meetings: brought up to date & posted on IETF Trust website

Trust Administrative Procedures: revised, reviewed by the community and adopted (April)

ISSN for RFC Series: investigated, discussed, applied for, and recently received (May - June)

July 31, 2008 IETF 72 Dublin 3

IETF Trust Actions since Philadelphia

Other work: Legal Provisions for IETF Documents, as required by

RFC [outbound]: Draft policy posted July 4th, then revised and reissued Good discussion at IPR WG meeting today (July 31st)

License for code developed by volunteers: 2007: Non-profit Open Source License 3.0 (OSL) adopted for

code sprints, but several issues raised by 'for-profit' employers

July 2008: Trustees decide to replace OSL with BSD license for volunteer code