--On tirsdag, oktober 26, 2004 15:50:07 -0400 Patrice Lyons <palyons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this. As I recall, at a meeting with you and Leslie in January 2004, you told me about a proposal under consideration that involved the donation of a patented architecture to the IETF. You mentioned a group that wanted to donate the technology, but I don't know if that has progressed in the interim. By donation, I mean such things as pooling patents in order to give technology to the IETF at little or no cost (whether or not under license). ISOC was mentioned in this context. This came up again informally during a coffee break at the ISOC Advisory Comm. meeting in Barcelona where I recall some discussion of possible interoperability testbeds for purposes of IETF architecture deliberations.
Thank you for the clarification - I had understood this mechanism to be a granting of licenses under common terms to the members of the IETF community, with the IPR owners keeping all ownership rights - but I've never built a patent pool, so it's entirely too possible that I misunderstood.
Harald
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