On October 8, the IESG approved the registration of application/3gpp-
ims+xml Media Type. On Nov 2, RIM filed an IPR disclosure related to
this at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1219/
The associated patent, filed Oct 2008, is at
http://www.google.com/patents?id=Mk7GAAAAEBAJ
and the related draft is
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bakker-sipping-3gpp-ims-xml-body-handling
I will note John-Luc Bakker from RIM is an author of both the patent
and and the draft. The draft has been widely discussed at IETF with
no mention of IPR before this. As an IESG member, I was not aware of
this IPR at the time the approval was made and I do not believe any
other IESG members were aware of it. I do believe the discussion would
have been different had the IESG been aware of this IPR.
If anyone thinks this is, ah, inappropriate, I would recommend they
appeal the IESG decision to approve this. (see section 6.5 of RFC 2026
for how this works). An IETF LC on this in the future would allow the
community to make an decision that was informed of the IPR.
Cullen
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