RE: Second Last Call: <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> (Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE) to Proposed Standard

["Adrian Farrel" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please also see US patent 20090204681 visible at  http://ip.com/patapp/US20090204681

 

In my opinion, this second last call should be suspended until this significant breach of the IETF's IPR policy set out in BCP79 has been resolved.

 

While it is important to find out what the IETF community's view of this situation is, there are two questions:

 

1. What does the WG think about the I-D being IPR encumbered and do they want to develop an alternate solution that is not encumbered?

 

2. How will the IETF handle the breach of IPR policy?

 

I believe the document should be returned to the working group who are the main victims of the disruptive behaviour by the author.

 

Thanks,

Adrian

 

From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Roach
Sent: 25 January 2012 21:36
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Subject: Re: Second Last Call: <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> (Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE) to Proposed Standard

 

Just to make sure I understand the sequence of events:

1. August 21, 2007: Huawei files a patent (CN 200710076523.4) on using SIP for SIEVE notifications. The inventor is listed as a single Huawei employee.
2. August 30, 2007: That same Huawei employee and two additional authors publish an IETF draft ( draft-melnikov-sieve-notify-sip-message-00) on using SIP for SIEVE notifications.
3. September 2007 - September 2011: The SIEVE working group discusses and improves the IETF draft.
4. October 6, 2011: The IESG approves the IETF draft for publication as an RFC.
5. December 14th, 2011: Huawei files an IPR disclosure with the IETF informing it of patent CN 200710076523.4

Is that correct? Am I leaving anything out?

/a


On 1/25/12 2:17 PM, The IESG wrote:

The IESG has received a request from the Sieve Mail Filtering Language WG

(sieve) to consider the following document:

- 'Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE'

  <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard

Last calls were earlier issued on version -05 of this document and this

document was approved by the IESG on 2011-10-06. Subsequently,

an IPR disclosure statement for this draft was submitted.

This Second Last Call is intended to determine whether the community

is still comfortable with publication of this document in light of the IPR statement.

The relevant IPR statement is available at:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1658/

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits

final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the

ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2012-02-08. Exceptionally, comments may be

sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the

beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.

Abstract

   This document describes a profile of the Sieve extension for

   notifications, to allow notifications to be sent over SIP MESSAGE.

The file can be obtained via

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message/

IESG discussion can be tracked via

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message/

The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:

   http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1658/

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