John, please allow me to be a bit less charitable than you. I spoke with someone from Internet Driver a year ago at the ICANN meeting, and explained the IETF process to them. The fact that they have not published an Internet Draft in a year indicates they don't intend to work with the IETF rules.
Further, Internet Driver proudly proclaims that their technology has pending patents. Unless the company explicitly details to the IETF how the licensing on its pending patent would be handled, I don't think it worth the time to read whatever technical document they produce. This is not a criticism of the technology: it might be as wonderful as they suggest. The same is true for many of the encumbered technologies that have been presented in this WG. They just don't seem destined to become widely-used Internet standards. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
