Re: [idn] Walid inc. patent news.

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine]

> >This does not have to be a formal working group activity.
> 
> this cannot be.

Please explain your reasoning. I'm curious as to the distinction
between an activity engaged in by two or three IETF participants,
two of whom happen to co-chair a Working Group, and an I-D author,
and a 3rd-party IPR claimant, and the process Dave described, in
which some number of IETF participants engage in an activity with
a 3rd-party IPR claimant.

The process docuent cite(s) depricating the first, and promoting
the second, or distinguishing between the first and second, will
be interesting reading.

Eric