Re: IPR view (Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today )

[Brian Trammell]

On 10 Mar 2013, at 8:46, Dave Crocker <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> 
> On 3/10/2013 8:27 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
>> I do but don't care. With my IETF hat on, the whole point of the cut-off is 
>> to enforce a physical barrier to ensure we do not ever hear, "I posted this 
>> draft yesterday, let's talk about it" in a work group. With my legal 
>> services hat on, with the US joining the rest of the world with 
>> first-to-file, those few weeks of publication could mean the difference 
>> between a free and open standard and a NPE swooping in and attempting to tax 
>> the industry.
> 
> 
> If that were a problem for all working groups, all the time, it might make at 
> least some sense.  But it isn't, so it doesn't.
> 
> It also entirely underestimates the ability of participants to generate new, 
> unreasonable demands...
> 
> Ultimately the problem you are using for justification is a matter of good 
> working group management.
> 
> Solve it with better management, not artificial barriers that are imposed on 
> everyone and that can be trivially routed around, albeit without the benefits 
> of using the I-D mechanism.
> 
> d/
> -- 
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
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