Digital Fountain IPR statement on draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptor-object
"Mark Watson" <[email protected]>
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All, As most of you are aware, Digital Fountain has to date been promoting our core technology, DF Raptor, as an open standard in IETF RMT and elsewhere, for any and all applications. This mail is to let you know about a change to that strategy: As a result of a recent, significant new relationship that is crucial to Digital Fountain with a prime contractor in the defense industry, our approach going forward will be to promote Raptor as an open standard for specific markets and applications - including of course 3GPP and DVB standards where Raptor has already been adopted and others in future. However, this means revising the IPR statement that we have made to the IETF regarding draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptor-object because, whilst we still offer RAND terms for specific standards such as 3GPP and DVB, we are no longer able to offer RAND terms independent of market and application. Going forward, there are several options regarding draft-ietf-rmt-fec-raptor-object, including not publishing it at all. This is of course a decision for the IETF and Digital Fountain will not take a position in that discussion. Best regards, Mark Watson Digital Fountain _______________________________________________ Rmt mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rmt