ietf
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Proposed IESG Statement on IPR Declarations

2016-07-12 17:39:04
Barry, Brian, et al,

This is indeed not designed to be a change of procedure. And we’re open to 
doing this in various ways, either as an update of some text on the appropriate 
web page, or as initially proposed, an IESG statement.

However, I wanted to say that we received advise from IETF lawyers that 
highlighting that we do not check or endorse statements in the IPR declarations 
more visibly would be useful, even if the material is already presented in the 
RFCs.

A few more follow-ups:

John:

RFC 6701 explicitly puts WG Chairs and the IESG into the
enforcement business


RFC 6701 is about the responsibility of contributors to make
declarations. And actions if that doesn’t happen. It is *not*
about the content of those declarations, however.

(3) When I heard that the IESG was planning an additional
statement in this area, I assumed it would address the one
recent claimed development that seemed to be a loose end --
whether someone who is listed as both an inventor and a
co-author on a document can possibly claim to not have
reasonably have personal knowledge of a possible or perceived
interaction between the two.   I think current version of BCP 79
might actually be a tad weak there

There a number of different things we might have to do with IPRs.

Does bcp79bis (draft-bradner-rfc3979bis) cover your issue? If not,
please submit an issue to Scott and Jorge.

That document is on our plate to complete (and mostly on my plate,
Scott and Jorge are awaiting me for the next steps).

Jari


Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail