3 Oct 17:36
The IETF policy needs to be expanded for two types of IPR Declarations.
From: TS Glassey <tglassey <at> earthlink.net>
Subject: The IETF policy needs to be expanded for two types of IPR Declarations.
Newsgroups: gmane.ietf.general, gmane.ietf.ipr
Date: 2008-10-03 15:36:46 GMT
Subject: The IETF policy needs to be expanded for two types of IPR Declarations.
Newsgroups: gmane.ietf.general, gmane.ietf.ipr
Date: 2008-10-03 15:36:46 GMT
Folks The problem the IETF and its Management Face is that the creation of the IPR process is not well, and IETF document's are regularly published by the IETF without any understanding as to what those publishing events do to the larger picture of the IP and its license. IPR Design Flaws ---------------------- The IPR page has some interesting failings and the one that is really important is that it blends "forward looking license statements" not particular to any specific or existing IP with actual IPR disclosures in with real Disclosure Statements regarding already existing IP controls making it difficult to search that IPR DB for actually important IPR Claims. Here is a specific filings from the NSA that is properly done: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/858/; and here is a filing that is essentially meaningless - its a political statement about events not disclosed and so it has no effect here except to say that they intend to play nice. https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/170/ This architecture of IP Process makes it virtually impossible to search the IPR DB for issues which may pertain to an initiative not yet or already under way inside the IETF. That is a failing which is unacceptable since it renders the IPR Process effectively useless as too costly to perform for each document filed with the IETF as part of a Standards Practice. In closing, this "blending of useless info" with specific patent information just complicates the practice and document's the lack of design forethought that went into the IPR Page and its workflow processes.(Continue reading)
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