BCP 78
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BCP 78 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that defines the rights, licenses, and legal framework governing contributions to IETF standards and related documents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BCP 78 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10623691 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BCP 78 Context triple: [RFC 5741, BCPNumber, BCP 78]
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A.
BCP 57
BCP 57 is a Best Current Practice document from the IETF that provides updated guidance and recommendations related to the subject matter previously covered by RFC 1908.
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B.
BCP 9
BCP 9 is a Best Current Practice document in the IETF series that defines key procedures and guidelines for the Internet standards process.
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C.
BCP 56
BCP 56 is a Best Current Practice document that provides guidelines and recommendations for designing and using application protocols over HTTP.
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D.
BCP 175
BCP 175 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that defines procedures and policies for managing the DNS root zone’s trust anchor for DNSSEC.
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E.
BCP 195
BCP 195 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that provides modern security recommendations for the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram TLS (DTLS) in Internet protocols.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BCP 78 Target entity description: BCP 78 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that defines the rights, licenses, and legal framework governing contributions to IETF standards and related documents.
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A.
BCP 57
BCP 57 is a Best Current Practice document from the IETF that provides updated guidance and recommendations related to the subject matter previously covered by RFC 1908.
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B.
BCP 9
BCP 9 is a Best Current Practice document in the IETF series that defines key procedures and guidelines for the Internet standards process.
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C.
BCP 56
BCP 56 is a Best Current Practice document that provides guidelines and recommendations for designing and using application protocols over HTTP.
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D.
BCP 175
BCP 175 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that defines procedures and policies for managing the DNS root zone’s trust anchor for DNSSEC.
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E.
BCP 195
BCP 195 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that provides modern security recommendations for the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram TLS (DTLS) in Internet protocols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IETF Best Current Practice
ⓘ
IETF document ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
clarify ownership of IETF contributions
ⓘ
ensure IETF can publish and modify contributions ⓘ protect contributors’ rights ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
IAB documents
ⓘ
IESG documents ⓘ IETF Internet-Drafts NERFINISHED ⓘ IETF standards ⓘ IETF working group documents ⓘ RFCs NERFINISHED ⓘ individual submissions to the IETF ⓘ |
| associatedWithProcess | IETF standards process ⓘ |
| category | Best Current Practice (BCP) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| complements | BCP 79 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defines |
license grants for IETF contributions
ⓘ
rights of contributors to IETF documents ⓘ rights of the IETF regarding contributions ⓘ rules for copyright in IETF documents ⓘ rules for granting licenses to the IETF Trust ⓘ |
| distinctFrom | BCP 79 ⓘ |
| ensures |
IETF can distribute its documents freely
ⓘ
IETF can revise and translate documents ⓘ |
| focusesOn | copyright and licensing of contributions ⓘ |
| governs |
derivative works of IETF documents
ⓘ
legal framework for IETF contributions ⓘ licenses for IETF contributions ⓘ reuse of IETF documents ⓘ rights in IETF contributions ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
copyright law
ⓘ
intellectual property rights ⓘ licensing ⓘ |
| publishedBy | Internet Engineering Task Force ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
IETF IPR policies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IETF Note Well NERFINISHED ⓘ IETF Trust NERFINISHED ⓘ IETF contribution boilerplate ⓘ IETF copyright notices ⓘ |
| requires | contributors to grant certain licenses to the IETF ⓘ |
| scopeIncludes |
IETF mailing list postings used in documents
ⓘ
code components in IETF documents ⓘ textual contributions to IETF documents ⓘ |
| typeOfRegulation | policy on contributions and copyrights ⓘ |
| usedBy |
IETF contributors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IETF document authors ⓘ IETF working groups ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: BCP 78 Description of subject: BCP 78 is an IETF Best Current Practice document that defines the rights, licenses, and legal framework governing contributions to IETF standards and related documents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.