Hey, Ted. > You seem to have two issues: one being that some individuals may not be > able to participate because patent searches or demonstrations of prior art > may be required and these are forbidden to them; the other being that the > IETF as a body should not make declarations about the IPR status of a piece > of work.
Yes. > Even if the working group were to have no formal analysis or declaration of > the IPR status of particular approaches in its output, the goal of this work > would be frustrated if it were forbidden from talking on its mailing list > about the participants' understandings of the IPR relevant to their or > others' contributions. That might include the results of those > participants' patent searches or other experience. Actually, I believe -- I'm willing to be corrected -- that we do *not* talk about participants' evaluations of patent claims, and we shut those discussions down if they happen. I believe that we consider those discussions out of scope for working groups, and that we expect and advise each participant to make her own decision in that regard. Barry _______________________________________________ video-codec mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec
