On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:47:46 +0000
Paul Vixie <paul(_at_)vix(_dot_)com> wrote:
in <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/802_11n_patent_threat/>,
we see:
Letters of Assurance are requested from all parties
holding patents which may be applicable to any IEEE
standard. Basically they state that the patent owner
won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ...
i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like
it?
Because the strong consensus of the IPR WG a few years ago was to keep
the current policy. As Ted Hardie pointed out, that group's mailing
list is the correct place to raise this issue -- but frankly, I don't
think the consensus has changed since the issue was last considered.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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