Until now, the IRTF didn't have a clearly formulated statement of how IPR is
handled by the organization. For the last year, the IRSG has been discussing
this topic with the IETF's legal counsel and other community members with a
deep understanding of the issues.
The result of this discussion is a short statement describing the IRTF's IPR
disclosure rules, which you can find below as well as online at
http://irtf.org/ipr. The short version is: the IRTF follows the IETF's IPR
disclosure rules. Because researchers participating in the IRTF may not be very
familiar with the IETF's rules, the IRTF IPR disclosure rules describe what is
required of the individual participant in the most common cases.
Just as the IETF, the IRTF expects participants to be familiar with these rules
and follow them when they make contributions.
Please email any comments or questions to irtf-discuss(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org.
Lars Eggert
IRTF Chair
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IRTF IPR Disclosure Rules
The IRTF follows the IETF IPR disclosure rules. This is a summary
of these rules as they relate to IRTF research group discussions,
mailing lists and Internet Drafts:
- If you include your own or your employer's IPR in a contribution
to an IRTF research group, then you must file an IPR disclosure
with the IETF.
- If you recognize your own or your employer's IPR in someone else's
contribution and you are participating in the discussions in the
research group relating to that contribution, then you must file
an IPR disclosure with the IETF. Even if you are not participating
in the discussion, the IRTF still requests that you file an IPR
disclosure with the IETF.
- Finally, the IRTF requests that you file an IPR disclosure with
the IETF if you recognize IPR owned by others in any IRTF
contribution.
You may file an IPR disclosure here:
http://www.ietf.org/ipr/file-disclosure
See RFC 3979 (BCP 79) for definitions of "IPR" and "contribution"
and for the detailed rules (substituting "IRTF" for "IETF").
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