Andrew Sullivan <ajs(_at_)commandprompt(_dot_)com> writes:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:25:42AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
request should be well established. I can think of at least two reasons
that are valid:
* Exact duplicates
* Spam
As soon as you have evaluated the claim, even for "exact duplication"
or "it's spam", haven't you done exactly what the pages claim not to
do (take a position on the validity of the claim)? I know that sounds
silly, but it seems to me that any evaluation _at all_ is
automatically a contravention of what the pages say the IETF does. If
the pages are just a list of claims, including bogus ones, then the
IETF has taken no position at all. As soon as some of them have been
evaluated, we're at the top of a slippery slope, I think.
That's a safer position, yes, but I suspect it will be completely
unusable quickly because of spam.
I can't find anything about permitting anonymous patent disclosures to
the IETF, so I think it would be possible to require some human
interaction with the submitter, to verify his identity, before a
disclosure is posted. Contacting a company's counsel when feasible
would also help. I don't think this would violate the requirement not
to validate claims -- we are not validating the claims, but just
validating the person notifying the IETF.
This sounds somewhat complex though, so maybe it is overkill.
/Simon
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