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Re: IPR Notice
On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Jari Arkko wrote:
I believe Fred's point was that there are matters that are specific
to this WG and other, more generic issues.
Yes. I have no doubt that the working group needs to discuss the
points of the protocol and what it wants to do with any limitations
that the declarations impose. An RFC 1988 declaration (Ericsson) and
a royalty-free declaration (Microsoft), IMHO, impose very few limits
on the WG - they simply preserve the companies' rights under the
relevant law. They prevent the companies from getting sued by other
companies over what are presumably their own inventions. If the
statement was a RAND statement there would be more for the working
group to discuss, but for outfits that are in fact reasonable in
their dealings the "R" in "RAND" is normally a pretty good sign.
Going on to discuss, as we always and ever do, whether there is a
place for IPR *at*all* in the IETF is significantly beyond the scope
of the question Geoff posed to the list, and IMHO significantly
beyond the scope of the shim6 charter. At that point, I called a
process question, which I believe to have been appropriate.