Re: IPR Disclosures on draft-ietf-sieve-include and draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message
Barry Leiba <[email protected]>
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> As you have seen by now, the IETF has received 2 IPR disclosures, one > regarding draft-ietf-sieve-convert and the other involving > draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message. > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1657/ > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1658/ ... > Both of these drafts are already approved and in the RFC Editor queue. Right > now, the RFC Editor has been asked to hold off publication for the moment > until we decide the next steps. We could treat the IPR disclosures just as > we would for any already published RFC (that is, we can simply say that it > is out of our hands). However, since publication has not occurred, we can > ask the RFC Editor to return the documents to the WG for further review, I am, of course, not a lawyer, but as I read the terms, they don't affect prospective implementations, and you need no license at all as long as you don't want to assert your own patents back. That's not to say that this isn't annoying; it is, and I wish it hadn't happened. It's just that I don't see it affecting any implementations of the standard, which is what's most important here. I'll also add that Huawei now has not just policies, but also active procedures in place to do our best to make this not happen in future. Our IETF participants are frequently reminded about the IETF IPR policies, and there are people responsible for tracking things and ensuring compliance. In this case, I think that publishing these documents is the right thing to do. I think a working-group review is sufficient, and unless WG participants particularly think we need to reach out to the community at large for confirmation, we should just release the RFC Ed hold on them after this consultation with the WG. I'll add that the working group and the ADs need to have participants speak up and say whether you think that's acceptable or not. Silence is not sufficient in this case. Please tell us how you would like this handled. Barry _______________________________________________ sieve mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sieve