On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:17:39 -0800 "Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Rather than a standing board (which was what I thought you had > > intended), > > [LR:] I had indeed intended a standing board, and still do. Why have > to agitate and recruit an expert team over every question, when a > simple question referred to an IPR Advisory Board for an answer will > probably suffice? But like most of your points in this paragraph, > it's open for discussion.... > The advantage of a per-WG board is that members would likely have familiarity with the technology and history of the field. The advantage of a standing board is familiarity with patents and procedures. Pick it... > [LR:] Be very careful. No attorney who can be deemed to speak on > behalf of IETF regarding patents should be there opining IETF's > opinion about actual patents. Instead, I recommend that we have an > invited (and probably open) selection of other attorneys who are > willing to sign up and actually participate as individuals, not > representing specific clients and speaking with appropriate liability > caveats. For process purposes, however, the IPR Advisory Board can > probably be chaired by an IETF patent counsel just to make sure > everyone behaves.... We'll have to see how many brave attorneys are > actually willing to participate in the entire IETF community's > behalf, but if W3C is an example, we'll find lots of willing > attorneys. :-) I wonder -- the IETF has been known to be hostile to lawyers... > > Anyway -- I think this is a promising suggestion, and not > > inconsistent with IETF practice or policy. But a fully-fleshed out > > I-D -- one that addresses the membership and the alternatives -- is > > probably needed, if only as a matter of form. > > [LR:] Ahhhhh yes, form. :-) Does anyone else volunteer? Do we have a > second? I'll participate, but I sure don't have the cycles to write anything, nor am I likely to be at very many IETF meetings for the PAG WG or even the PAG bar bof... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf