Cosmetic Surgery Project: new revised document for Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies
Dear Colleagues, At the RIPE 59 Meeting in Lisbon in October 2009, the RIPE NCC announced that it would undertake a project to improve the language of various RIPE Policy Documents, without changing their substance or meaning. This project is aimed at improving the clarity and readability of RIPE Documents. For more information, see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/ <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/> The first RIPE Document to be revised was "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures". The revised document is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html The second document for review will be ripe-481, "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy". More information about this will follow shortly Kind Regards Emilio Madaio Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:30:31PM +0200, Emilio Madaio wrote:
RIPE Policy Documents, without changing their substance or meaning. This project is aimed at improving the clarity and readability of RIPE Documents. For more information, see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/
thanks, this is a helpful effort.
The first RIPE Document to be revised was "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures". The revised document is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html
The predecessor at <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-463.html> has this copyright note in the footer: "© RIPE Community. All rights reserved". The updated version <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html> now points to the standard disclaimer <http://www.ripe.net/legal/copyright-statement.html>, which reads "Copyright (c) 1992-2009 the Réseaux IP Européen Network Coordination Centre RIPE NCC. All rights restricted." The second paragraph then clarifies that policy documents are not covered by this NCC copyright and the second last paragraph says "Please be advised that no copyrights originate with the RIPE community but instead with the creator of the material, whether that be the RIPE NCC or any other individual or organisation whose material appears on the RIPE NCC website or RIPE website." So, for the curious, who holds the copyrights for the RIPE policy documents? -Peter
Dear Peter, Thank you for your question. In principle, the copyright holder of material (document, website, etc.) is the creator of this material or the person whom the copyright license for this material has been given to. A copyright holder can be a natural person or a legal person. The RIPE NCC is the copyright holder for, among others, the RIPE NCC documents and the RIPE NCC website. The copyright statement "Copyright © 1992-2009 the Réseaux Européen Network Coordination Centre RIPE NCC All rights restricted" refers to this kind of material. For RIPE Policy documents, the RIPE community does not have the form of a legal person. Therefore, in this case, the copyright holder is the individual creator of each policy. This is reason for the Attribution section at the end of the revised document. These topics were discussed during the presentation "Authorship of RIPE Policy Documents" at RIPE 60. For documentation, please see: - Presentation: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/presentations/Yilmaz-Authorship_of... - Webcast: http://ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/flash-video.php?day=Wednesday&pres=Filiz%20Yilmaz%20-%20Authorship%20of%20RIPE%20Policy%20Documents%20-%202.flv <http://ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/flash-video.php?day=Wednesday&pres=Filiz%20Yilmaz%20-%20Authorship%20of%20RIPE%20Policy%20Documents%20-%202.flv> - Transcripts: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/steno-transcripts.php?steno=Main-1... Kind regards, Emilio Madaio Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC On 8/31/10 12:04 PM, Peter Koch wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:30:31PM +0200, Emilio Madaio wrote:
RIPE Policy Documents, without changing their substance or meaning. This project is aimed at improving the clarity and readability of RIPE Documents. For more information, see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/ thanks, this is a helpful effort.
The first RIPE Document to be revised was "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures". The revised document is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html The predecessor at<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-463.html> has this copyright note in the footer: "© RIPE Community. All rights reserved". The updated version<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html> now points to the standard disclaimer<http://www.ripe.net/legal/copyright-statement.html>, which reads "Copyright (c) 1992-2009 the Réseaux IP Européen Network Coordination Centre RIPE NCC. All rights restricted."
The second paragraph then clarifies that policy documents are not covered by this NCC copyright and the second last paragraph says "Please be advised that no copyrights originate with the RIPE community but instead with the creator of the material, whether that be the RIPE NCC or any other individual or organisation whose material appears on the RIPE NCC website or RIPE website."
So, for the curious, who holds the copyrights for the RIPE policy documents?
-Peter
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Peter Koch