In message <41628837320.20030131140909@brandenburg.com>, Dave Crocker writes: >Folks, > >Norm Beamer is a partner at Fish & Neave, which specializes in >intellectual property law. They did the patent for the Wright Brothers. > >I am forwarding his note at his request. This is not intended to state a >concern that the IETF's current efforts regarding intellectual property >are inadequate -- my non-expert guess is that we currently have pretty >good policies and communicate them well. > >However it seems worthwhile to take note of a case and a warning that an >expert thinks is relevant to us. Thanks. This case has already been mentioned on the IPR wg's mailing list. I do feel that our requirements are explicit now; we're making sure that they're clear enough in IPR. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)