Re: Second Last Call: <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> (Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE) to Proposed Standard

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On 1/25/12 2:50 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> Please also see US patent 20090204681 visible at
>  http://ip.com/patapp/US20090204681
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> In my opinion, this second last call should be suspended until this
> significant breach of the IETF's IPR policy set out in BCP79 has been
> resolved.
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> While it is important to find out what the IETF community's view of this
> situation is, there are two questions:
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> 1. What does the WG think about the I-D being IPR encumbered and do they
> want to develop an alternate solution that is not encumbered?
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> 2. How will the IETF handle the breach of IPR policy?
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> I believe the document should be returned to the working group who are
> the main victims of the disruptive behaviour by the author.
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> Thanks,
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> Adrian
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> *From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf
> Of *Adam Roach
> *Sent:* 25 January 2012 21:36
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* [email protected]; The IESG; IETF-Announce
> *Subject:* Re: Second Last Call:
> <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> (Sieve Notification
> Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE) to Proposed Standard
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> Just to make sure I understand the sequence of events:
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>  1. August 21, 2007: Huawei files a patent (CN 200710076523.4) on using
>     SIP for SIEVE notifications. The inventor is listed as a single
>     Huawei employee.
>  2. August 30, 2007: That same Huawei employee and two additional
>     authors publish an IETF draft (
>     draft-melnikov-sieve-notify-sip-message-00) on using SIP for SIEVE
>     notifications.
>  3. September 2007 - September 2011: The SIEVE working group discusses
>     and improves the IETF draft.
>  4. October 6, 2011: The IESG approves the IETF draft for publication as
>     an RFC.
>  5. December 14th, 2011: Huawei files an IPR disclosure with the IETF
>     informing it of patent CN 200710076523.4
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> Is that correct? Am I leaving anything out?
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> /a
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> On 1/25/12 2:17 PM, The IESG wrote:
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> The IESG has received a request from the Sieve Mail Filtering Language WG
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> (sieve) to consider the following document:
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> - 'Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE'
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>   <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard
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> Last calls were earlier issued on version -05 of this document and this
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> document was approved by the IESG on 2011-10-06. Subsequently,
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> an IPR disclosure statement for this draft was submitted.
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> This Second Last Call is intended to determine whether the community
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> is still comfortable with publication of this document in light of the IPR statement.
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> The relevant IPR statement is available at:
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1658/
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> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
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> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing lists by 2012-02-08. Exceptionally, comments may be
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> sent to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> instead. In either case, please retain the
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> Abstract
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>    This document describes a profile of the Sieve extension for
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>    notifications, to allow notifications to be sent over SIP MESSAGE.
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> The file can be obtained via
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> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message/
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> IESG discussion can be tracked via
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> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message/
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> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
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>    http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1658/
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