Re: patent language for all drafts

[Fred Douglis <douglis@research.att.com>]

Mark,

I raised the question of including a generic comment in all drafts, rather 
than the specific statements as you proposed.  It received little comment 
other than Abbie's fear of how the intellectual property would affect the 
standards efforts (if I'm characterizing that correctly).

If people change the drafts today to include Cisco's statement, they'll have 
to change it tomorrow, or next week, or whenever to include the next 
statement.  (We have to make some statement as well, which I am trying to get 
formalized.)  

Can we use more generic language, saying that the IETF has been or will be 
apprised of any company's intellectual property?

Fred