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[Curtis Villamizar <curtis@fictitious.org>]

In message <40741D2A.8000803@cisco.com>, Robert Raszuk writes:
> 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.


Robert,

Unfortunately those attempts seem not very successful and the
documents go forward anyway.  It would be another story if this was
reworded to say that at the IESG review step any document for which
the above mentioned rights are not obtained will not be advanced.

Curtis


>  > 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