brc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian E Carpenter) wrote on 21.10.04 in <4178191B.4040902@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Patent holders who choose to stay outside the standards setting > process are not in the least impressed by the IPR policy of the > standards body, whether it is the W3C, the IETF, or anywhere else. > Those are the patent holders you need to worry about, not the ones > who play nice by helping to set open standards. You're shooting at > the wrong target by shooting at the IETF and its participants. I believe the Sender-ID case to be a counter example to your claim. The patent holder in this case has, IMO, made it sufficiently clear that he *is* one of those we need to worry about. MfG Kai _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf