On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:47:46 +0000 Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/802_11n_patent_threat/>, > we see: > > Letters of Assurance are requested from all parties > holding patents which may be applicable to any IEEE > standard. Basically they state that the patent owner > won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... > > i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like > it? > Because the strong consensus of the IPR WG a few years ago was to keep the current policy. As Ted Hardie pointed out, that group's mailing list is the correct place to raise this issue -- but frankly, I don't think the consensus has changed since the issue was last considered. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
