--On Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:32:12 AM -0500 "Contreras, Jorge"
<jorge.contre...@wilmerhale.com> wrote:
For background, the trademark license was included in RFC 3978 because
someone was concerned about Contributors who submitted documents to IETF
for standards-track use and included trademarked product names in them.
The IETF wanted to ensure that the IETF process would not be hindered by
the Contributor, and also wanted to ensure that the trademarks were
identified so that implementers would not be surprised by the trademark
owner's claim after a standard was adopted.
To be clear, this was not idle paranoia. Like many (not all) of the poor
behaviors our processes attempt to protect against, this is something that
working groups have actually seen happen.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhu...@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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