Dear Chris, et. al, as co-author I'm not aware of any IPR that is applicable to the current version of draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p.
Regards, Greg On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Chris Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > RTGWG, > > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p is currently an individual draft. Before > conducting > a poll regarding working group adoption by RTGWG, I would like to get > responses from > the authors and contributors regarding any IPR related to this draft. > > First, there is some history associated with this draft that is useful to > document. > > In June of 2015, draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-00 was published based on the use of > point-to-point BFD by VRRP. > > In July of 2015, draft-mirsky-bfd-p2mp-vrrp-use-case-00 was published > based on the use of point-to-multipoint BFD by VRRP. > > In October of 2015, after suggestions from the WG, the two drafts above > were > merged into draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-02. > > In January of 2016, the following IPR was disclosed related to > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd. > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2739/ > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-02 was the current version of draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd > when this IPR > was disclosed. > > In October of 2016, a WG adoption poll was conducted regarding > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd. > There was not consensus to adopt the draft due to IPR concerns. See this > email for details. > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtgwg/current/msg05729.html > > In August of 2017, draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p-00 was published. > > In October of 2017, a new revision of draft-mirsky-bfd-p2mp-vrrp-use-case > (rev-01) was published. > > In December of 2017 (yesterday to be precise), an minor update to > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p was published. > > It is my understanding from discussions with the authors of these drafts, > both inside and outside of the RTGWG sessions at IETF100, that > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p was written with the goal of separating the > content > of the merged draft back into two separate drafts in such a way that > the IPR disclosed in https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2739/ does not > apply to > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p. > > Having documented that history, I would now like to conduct the usual > RTGWG process regarding IPR, specifically for IPR related to > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p. > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p/ > > If you are listed as an author or contributor to > draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p, > please respond to this email stating whether or not you are aware of any > IPR that applies to draft-nitish-vrrp-bfd-p2p. The response needs to be > sent > to the RTGWG mailing list. The document will not advance to the next stage > until a response has been received from each author and each individual > that has contributed to the document. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > rtgwg mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg > >
