[address-policy-wg] Cosmetic Surgery Project: new revised document for Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies

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