somebody told me... > I agree with you 100% on ipr disclosure. I'd go even farther: > if you want it to be an ietf spec and you have relevant ipr, > you have to disclose *and* quit-claim. And, yes, it would make > sense for the admin. body to have somebody agressively doing > searches just in case. i don't agree that it shouldn't be allowed to be an rfc. i do think the iesg/iab should think carefully about making something a proposed standard or draft standard or full standard without having first negotiated royalty-free use rights on behalf of all future implementors, as scrocker did with jbezos for the RSADSI IPR that went into early dnssec. but as an informational or experimental rfc, the process ought to be open to any IPR no matter how strongly encumbered so long as it's disclosed. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf