RFC 2339 (rfc2339) - Page 2 of 5
An Agreement Between the Internet Society, the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 2339 ISOC / Sun agreement on NFS May 1998
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE INTERNET SOCIETY,
THE IETF, AND SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
IN THE MATTER OF NFS V.4 PROTOCOLS
This Agreement is made this 3rd day of March, 1998 by and between Sun
Microsystems, Inc. ("Donor") and the Internet Society. In
consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set forth below,
the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. License Grant. For good and valuable consideration, receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and solely for the
purpose specified in Paragraph 2 below, Donor hereby grants to the
Internet Society ("Licensees" which, for the purposes of this
Agreement, shall include the Internet Engineering Task Force
("IETF"), the IETF Secretariat, and their respective members,
officers, employees, contractors and participating individuals) a
cost-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license
under any copyrights owned or otherwise licensable by Donor, under
any Sun patent rights that are essential to practice the
Specification, and any other Sun intellectual property rights to use,
reproduce, distribute, perform, display and prepare derivative works
of the Specification, and to authorize others to do so. For the
purposes of this Agreement, "Specification" means the technical
specification described more fully in Exhibit A, which Donor will
make available as the initial point for development of the
specification for NFS Version 4 as described hereunder, together with
any technical specifications based thereon developed by Licensees.
2. Statement of Purpose. The licenses granted in Section 1 are
granted for the sole purpose of seeking to make the Specification an
Internet standard.
3. Evolution of the Specification. Donor further grants to Licensees
a worldwide right and license to further evolve, develop and modify
the Specification for the purpose of making the Specification an
Internet Standard through the Internet Standardization Process (as
specified in RFC 2026); Donor may not grant a license involving the
Specification to any other party, including any standards group, that
would authorize such party to evolve, develop, modify or promote the
Specification as a standard. In particular, Donor acknowledges that
if it performs any evolution, development or modification of the
Specification outside of the Internet Standardization Process, that
this should be clearly indicated as being a non-standard development,
and that no reference to the Internet Standards Process is allowed
for any such Specification developed outside of the Internet
Standards Process.
ISOC & Sun Informational