Pete I agree with what you have done but would like to see it recorded in something more accessible than an e-mail archive. Could it be added to the data tracker, under IESG evaluation or IESG writeup or some such? Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Resnick" <presnick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "IETF-Discussion list" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:32 PM > I wanted to inform the community of the results of the second Last Call > issued for draft-ietf-sieve-convert and > draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message. To remind you of the circumstances: > After these two documents were approved by the IESG and sent on to the > RFC Editor, an IPR disclosure was made pertaining to each of them > indicating that one of the document editors for both documents was also > the listed inventor for the disclosed patent. The disclosures were made > by the document editor's employer and indicate that the date of the > patent filings was prior to the adoption of these two drafts by the > SIEVE working group. The RFC Editor was asked to suspend their work on > the documents, and a second Last Call was made. > > After reviewing discussions in the SIEVE WG and on the IETF mailing > list, the chairs have decided (and I support) that, because of the > failure to disclose the IPR as required by BCP 79 (RFC 3979), and as per > RFC 2418 Section 6.1, the following actions are appropriate and will be > taken: > > - The document editor in question is no longer a document editor for > these two documents. > - The person's name will be removed from the front page of the documents > and from the Authors' Address section. > - The person's name will be added to the Acknowledgments section of both > documents to identify that he did contribute text to the drafts. > - The RFC Editor will be asked to continue processing and publication of > these drafts as RFCs. > > We will be notifying the RFC Editor of this decision presently. > > Meanwhile, the employer of the document editor in question has made > followup disclosures on each of the documents, saying that they > "covenant not to assert any such claim against any party for making, > using, selling, offering for sale or importing a product that implements > the corresponding part of the specification." The full text of the > disclosures can be seen here: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1680/ > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1681/ > > pr > > -- > Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/> > Qualcomm Incorporated - Direct phone: (858)651-4478, Fax: (858)651-1102 > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf