I do not find any IPR disclosures against draft-ietf-pwe3-segmented-pw, the Internet-Draft that became RFC 6073. As a result, I am very concerned by the extremely late notice of patents by Alcatel Lucent, especially since RFC 6073 and the patent have a common author. This fact makes it very clear that Alcatel Lucent was aware of the work that produced RFC 6073. This is clearly a breach of IETF IPR policy as described in BCP 79. Yesterday, I wrote to Alcatel Lucent about their recent IPR statement, and asked them to consider a revised IPR disclosure to correct this situation. I received a response today. Alcatel Lucent confirmed that they take their standards obligations very seriously. They are investigating the situation, and they promised to respond to my message soon. I will report further when I receive that response. Russ On May 31, 2011, at 12:37 PM, IETF Secretariat wrote: > Dear Mustapha Aissaoui, Florin Balus, Matthew Bocci, Michael Duckett, Luca Martini, Chris Metz, Thomas Nadeau: > > An IPR disclosure that pertains to your RFC entitled "Segmented Pseudowire" > (RFC6073) was submitted to the IETF Secretariat on 2011-05-26 and has > been posted on the "IETF Page of Intellectual Property Rights Disclosures" > (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1566/). The title of the IPR > disclosure is "Alcatel Lucent's Statement of IPR Related to RFC > 6073.""); > > The IETF Secretariat _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf