Paul Vixie <paul@xxxxxxx>: > eric is saying that the previous situation > whereby a draft author surrendered the IPR before RFC publication was better. > various others have said "but what if the IPR terms try to distinguish > between commercial and noncommercial?" my observations are (1) there are > ways to do "open source" without this distinction, and (2) authors cannot > be expected warrant their IPR surrender in any case. In fact, the *only* way to do open source is without this distinction. I actually wish it were otherwise, but my wishes have no effect on the logic of the situation. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf