We covered this on Politech over a year ago, and I had understood at the time that IEEE was going to remove that language: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03402.html -Declan On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:16:39AM -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:

I don't know if anyone here is a member of the IEEE, but here's a couple of interesting comments that came in my mail box this morning. Seems like the IEEE isn't interested in crypto research?

Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:36:54 -0400 To: pkilabs-announce@internet2.edu Subject: [PKILAB] chilling effect: ieee and dmca From: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>

This morning, i noticed that the IEEE copyright form (that authors must sign when they publish papers with the IEEE), the signer must warrant that "publication or dissemination of the work" will not violate the DMCA.

--Sean

-- Sean W. Smith, Ph.D. sws@cs.dartmouth.edu http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/ (has ssl link to pgp key) Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA =========================================================================

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:45:43 -0700 Message-ID: <200305161345.h4GDjhi14657@cayman-islands.isi.edu> From: Clifford Neuman <bcn@ISI.EDU> To: sws@cs.dartmouth.edu CC: pkilabs-announce@internet2.edu

I suggest that we ask the IEEE to include with the form their definitive interpretation of the DMCA and spell out specifically what the signer is warranting. Without such a statement limiting the warranty to what the signer can reasonably interpret, I would certainly not feel confortable granting such a warranty.

Cliff

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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Sean Smith wrote:

it's possible that they just sent me an old form...

Maybe, or else they are thinking of bringing it back. Worth while to double check, especially if it's been hammered out already. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike