* Bill Fenner <[email protected]> [2014-05-08 20:41]: > I was the IESG member responsible for the VRRP working group when the > OpenBSD developer (I'm sorry, Henning, I forget if it was you or someone > else)
wasn't me, as stated repeatedly I wasn't the one talking to the standard bodies. > came to a VRRP WG meeting and demanded that the IETF handle the > patent issue with VRRP. We described the IETF's IPR process and that the > policy is explicitly not to do what was being requested, and the response > was more or less "well, then we'll have to fix the problem for you". At > later meetings I heard buzz about how the developers intended CARP to > interfere with VRRP, with the philosophical position that VRRP wasn't a > protocol. I think we have told what happened in enough detail in the 3.5 commentary already posted to this thread. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services GmbH, AG Hamburg HRB 128289, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, VMs/PVS, Application Hosting
