I'd like to be reassured that this has been carefully reviewed
by the IETF counsel and the IETF Trust. In particular I would
be interested in its possible interaction with the IETF's
liability insurance.
Any IETF participant can call for sanctions to be applied to anyone
they believe has violated the IETF's IPR policy. This can be done by
sending email to the appropriate IETF mailing list.
That seems reasonable, but publishing such a belief without having the
wording checked by a libel lawyer might be risky. I think the draft
should state that a call for sanctions should be based on factual
evidence and not on "belief". How about
Any IETF participant can call for sanctions to be applied to anyone
shown to have violated the IETF's IPR policy. This can be done by
sending email to the appropriate IETF mailing list, including a
a short summary of the relevant facts and events.
Regards
Brian Carpenter
On 2012-05-07 22:56, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy'
<draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt> as Informational RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists by 2012-06-04. Exceptionally, comments
may be
sent to iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org instead. In either case, please retain the
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Abstract
The IETF has developed and documented policies that govern the
behavior of all IETF participants with respect to Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) about which they might reasonably be aware.
The IETF takes conformance to these IPR policies very seriously.
However, there has been some ambiguity as to what the appropriate
sanctions are for the violation of these policies, and how and by
whom those sanctions are to be applied.
This document discusses these issues and provides a suite of
potential actions that may be taken within the IETF community.
The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions/ballot/
No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.