The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology' (draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-13.txt) as Best Current Practice This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Jari Arkko. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradner-rfc3979bis/ Technical Summary This document defines IETF's IPR rules. Working Group Summary The topic and the draft has been discussed in a BOF at IETF-87, and on the IPR-WG list. Document Quality Some of the main issues (such as how to define participation) were discussed in the IETF-87 meeting, but there are also a number of other changes in this document. Please give this document a careful read, and let us know your feedback. Personnel The responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko. RFC Editor Note In 1(i): s/informational and experimental (see Section 4 of RFC 2026) documents./informational and experimental documents (see Section 4 of RFC 2026)./