I do not find any IPR disclosures against draft-ietf-pwe3-segmented-pw, the
Internet-Draft that became RFC 6073. As a result, I am very concerned by the
extremely late notice of patents by Alcatel Lucent, especially since RFC 6073
and the patent have a common author. This fact makes it very clear that
Alcatel Lucent was aware of the work that produced RFC 6073. This is clearly a
breach of IETF IPR policy as described in BCP 79.
Yesterday, I wrote to Alcatel Lucent about their recent IPR statement, and
asked them to consider a revised IPR disclosure to correct this situation.
I received a response today. Alcatel Lucent confirmed that they take their
standards obligations very seriously. They are investigating the situation,
and they promised to respond to my message soon. I will report further when I
receive that response.
Russ
On May 31, 2011, at 12:37 PM, IETF Secretariat wrote:
Dear Mustapha Aissaoui, Florin Balus, Matthew Bocci, Michael Duckett, Luca
Martini, Chris Metz, Thomas Nadeau:
An IPR disclosure that pertains to your RFC entitled "Segmented Pseudowire"
(RFC6073) was submitted to the IETF Secretariat on 2011-05-26 and has
been posted on the "IETF Page of Intellectual Property Rights Disclosures"
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1566/). The title of the IPR
disclosure is "Alcatel Lucent's Statement of IPR Related to RFC
6073."");
The IETF Secretariat
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