Thomas, The draft addresses a real problem and already has had several good rounds of discussion and revision on the list. So the original reasons for making it a WG draft haven't gone away. Regarding the IPR, as Lucy noted, Huawei is not asserting royalties.
Cheers, Andy On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Morin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello working group, > > At the end of July, IPR has been disclosed on both > draft-bonica-l3vpn-orf-covering-prefixes > and draft-ietf-l3vpn-orf-covering-prefixes, related to a patent by one of > the co-authors, Lucy Yong ; we consider this disclosure far from satisfying > considering the rules of BCP79 ("as soon as reasonably possible after the > Contribution is published" [1]), and in particular because the information > was not provided when an IPR disclosure reminder question was asked by > chairs to authors, during the call for adoption in June. > > The WG Chairs have thus decided to take a step back and initiate a new > poll for adoption on draft-bonica-l3vpn-orf-covering-prefixes-03 [2]. > > Knowing about this IPR [3], please express your opinion on whether this > document should be adopted or not by the Working Group. Please motivate > your opinion. > > Progressing this document as an L3VPN WG item is thus subject to renewed > WG consensus. > > Please send your comments, to the list or to the chairs, before **October > the 21th**. > > Thank you, > > Thomas & Martin, > l3vpn chairs > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp79#section-6.2.1 > [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bonica-l3vpn-orf-covering-prefixes-03 > [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2397/ > >
