The MPLS WG Archive

[Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>]

Curtis,

Have you checked out:

http://www.ietf.org/ipr.html

and particulary the belwo text:

(C) Where the IESG knows of rights, or claimed rights under (A), the 
IETF Executive Director shall attempt to obtain from the claimant of 
such rights, a written assurance that upon approval by the IESG of the 
relevant Internet standards track specification(s), any party will be 
able to obtain the right to implement, use and distribute the technology 
or works when implementing, using or distributing technology based upon 
the specific specification(s) under openly specified, reasonable, 
non-discriminatory terms.

R.

 > Curtis Villamizar wrote:
 >
> In message <200404052214.PAA24523@redback.com>, Naiming Shen writes:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>We presented the below two drafts in Seoul ietf, and we would like
>>them to be discussed more on this mailing alias. The authors would
>>like to move them into WG documents. We are very interested in any
>>comments on them.
>>
>>draft-shen-nhop-fastreroute-00.txt
>>draft-shen-mpls-ldp-nnhop-label-00.txt
>>
>>thanks.
>>- Naiming
 >
> 
> I'd say reject them both on the basis that they contain the following
> statement.
> 
>   7. Intellectual Property Considerations
> 
>    Redback Networks may have intellectual property rights claimed in
>    regard to some of the specification contained in this document.
> 
> We can't be moving things to standards which are encumbered by
> intellectual property restrictions.
> 
> Curtis
> 
>