The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology' <draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-10.txt> as Best Current Practice The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-02-15. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The IETF policies about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), such as patent rights, relative to technologies developed in the IETF are designed to ensure that IETF working groups and participants have as much information as possible about any IPR constraints on a technical proposal as early as possible in the development process. The policies are intended to benefit the Internet community and the public at large, while respecting the legitimate rights of IPR holders. This memo sets out the IETF policies concerning IPR related to technology worked on within the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo replaces section 10 of RFC 2026 and obsoletes RFC 3979 and RFC 4879. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradner-rfc3979bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradner-rfc3979bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc6701: Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy (Informational - IETF stream) rfc4844: The RFC Series and RFC Editor (Informational - IAB stream) rfc6401: RSVP Extensions for Admission Priority (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.
