On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:21:55PM -0700, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > Could you give an example of an WG in which this would have been > preferable? MARID, certainly. > Yes, there are a few engineers in the IETF who like to play armchair > lawyer and would love to spend the initial time of WG formation > pontificating about IPR, but they are in the small minority. Such a > discussion would be of no interest to the folks who want to do good > technical work. You mean that everyone who disagrees with the current IPR policy of IETF is not wanting to do good technical work? And that people genuinely interested in a better IPR policy are just "armchair lawyers"? Seems quite despising. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf