From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu]
However that doesn't mean that IETF should necessarily
endorse, or even
document, any of these technologies. Sometimes it's a disservice to
the community to document a bad idea.
The protaganists in this matter have already conceeded the technical
issue. It was only when an issue was found with the IPR license on offer
that an objection arose.
That doesn't mean that there weren't other objections, only that some
people found the whole MARID exercise pointless and chose to spend
their energies in ways that they found more productive. IPR concerns
or no IPR concerns, MARID would never have gained community
consensus. Like an opportunistic infection that deals the final blow
to a terminally ill patient, IPR issues were not the cause of MARID's
demise, but merely a symptom.
Keith
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