Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Let's be realistic about the IETF. While we pretend that we have
> individual contributors, the reality is that large companies fund huge
> chunks of it. Those companies effectively shield individual
> contributors from patent lawsuits. i.e. no one will sue an employee of
> Cisco about a standard, they will instead sue Cisco directly.
Actually, nobody seems to sue the majors except other majors.
Nobody seems to sue small entities that have no money except patent trolls.
> Michael and I have no such protection. As an implementor of EAP-SIM
> and EAP-AKA, he may be personally liable. As the person hosting the
> web site and source code, I may also be personally liable.
I don't think you can be sued for patent infringemenet for writing about
the patent, only for using it. Copyright, yes, but not patents.
> And realistically, Open Source has driven the explosion of tech
> companies in the past 10 years. I think few companies could have been
> profitable if they had paid license fees for an OS, web server, etc.
> So there should be a vested interest in protecting open source as part
> of the IETF standardization process.
I agree with you, and so it borders on seriously insulting to open source
authors to have these super-vague IPR claims show up from non-technical
lawyers.
Let me restate my original opinion:
- if this is important to 5G, then anything that gets in the way of
adoption is a problem. If it's not important enough to fix the IPR,
then it's actually that important.
- adopting AKA is very important.
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