--On tirsdag, oktober 26, 2004 15:50:07 -0400 Patrice Lyons
<palyons(_at_)cox(_dot_)net> wrote:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this. As I recall, at a meeting
with
you and Leslie in January 2004, you told me about a proposal under
consideration that involved the donation of a patented architecture to the
IETF. You mentioned a group that wanted to donate the technology,
but I don't know if that has progressed in the interim. By donation,
I mean such things as pooling patents in order to give technology
to the IETF at little or no cost (whether or not under license). ISOC
was mentioned in this context. This came up again informally during
a coffee break at the ISOC Advisory Comm. meeting in Barcelona
where I recall some discussion of possible interoperability testbeds
for purposes of IETF architecture deliberations.
Thank you for the clarification - I had understood this mechanism to be a
granting of licenses under common terms to the members of the IETF
community, with the IPR owners keeping all ownership rights - but I've
never built a patent pool, so it's entirely too possible that I
misunderstood.
Harald
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