Re: vrrp and IPR

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

>>An important thing here is that we have a lot (clearly more than two
>>required by the process) of implementations and the vast majority of
>>them did not acquire the license (can't say all, of course). For us
>>'did not conclude licensing was required' is the same as 'licensed
>>under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms'. So, it seems to me
>>that we should not request the licensing statements in the report, and
>>"instead apply the normal requirements for the advancement of Internet
>>Standards"

> Can I make this part public?  The NetBSD folk are trying to decide what
> to to about VRRP.

This last para?

Note, that folks have to do their own risk assessment on whether they
should implement or not and whether to request a license or not. We
shouldn't advise them on this, as we may unintentionally mislead them.

Alex