--On Sunday, August 04, 2013 19:31 +0000 Ted Lemon
<Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:
If you came to the IETF and were working for company X,
registered pseudonymously, and didn't disclose IPR belonging
to you or company X, and then later company X sued someone for
using their IPR, you and company X would get raked over the
coals, jointly and severally; the deliberate attempt to
deceive would make things worse for you. And that's the
point: to provide you with a strong disincentive to doing such
a thing. So whether the rules prevent you from being
anonymous, or prevent you from suing, everybody's happy.
If company X wanted to collaborate with Yoav in preserving his
pseudonym (i.e., not disclosing the binding to his name), they
could presumably file a disclosure without identifying the
particular employee for whom the disclosure was made.
Especially with the ambiguities created by anonymous and
pseudonymous remote participation, I assume we would not decline
to post an IPR disclosure from an organization on the grounds
that we didn't know who was affiliated with it who participated
in the IETF.
(IANAL, so I'm just explaining my understanding of the
situation.)
ditto.
best,
john