Re: Last Call: <draft-polk-ipr-disclosure-03.txt> (Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules) to Informational RFC

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Hi Peter,

I understand why the intended status is not BCP. I suggest taking into account the wider audience feedback to determine whether the it should not be made clearer.

A question which is not covered by the draft is when a draft is "adopted" through a charter. I assume that the AD will contact the authors in such cases.

In Section 2:

There is a typo, "secretatires".

in Section 3.1:

  "If necessary disclosures have not been submitted, the chairs have a
   choice: insist on an informal disclosure in the presentation, or deny
   the agenda slot unless the IPR disclosure is submitted.  One factor
   in this decision could be the number of revisions that have occurred:
   the chairs might wish to permit presentation of a -00 draft with a
   verbal disclosure, but not after a draft has gone through multiple
   cycles."

The boilerplate explicitly states that this draft as any other draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of the usual BCPs. If disclosures are necessary they should be submitted especially if the goal of this draft is to promote compliance. Informal disclosures causes uncomfortable situations as there are usually valid reasons. There is also the presumption of good faith which makes it a difficult decision. I don't know how often verbal disclosures go on record. The information may not be available to the working group (decisions are taken through the mailing list) unless the participants go through the audio.

In A.1:

  "In order to comply with IETF processes while avoiding unnecessary
   delays, document authors and contributors to our discussions in
   the FOO WG are asked to take these messages seriously, and to
   reply in a timely fashion."

Is there any message from WG chairs which should not be taken seriously? :-) I'll suggest:

   In order to comply with IETF processes and avoid unnecessary delays,
   document authors and contributors to our discussions in the FOO WG
   are asked to take pay careful attention to these messages and to
   reply in a timely fashion.

In A.2:

  "We will weigh this information when we judge the consensus on
  the call for adoption."

The wording is not that clear. It is up to the participants to see whether they are ok to work the specification given the IPR claims. Sam Hartman posted some possible responses in such cases ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg08992.html ). What we were are looking for here is whether there are any claims. The easy path is to remove the sentence and keep the IPR question for the follow-up question.

In A.3:

  "The authors of draft-ietf-foo-wiffle have asked for a Working Group
   Last Call.  Before issuing the Last Call, we would like to check"

I suggest "before issuing the Working Group Last Call" as Last Call is generally considered as what's in the subject line of this message.

I'll +1 the draft. Please feel free to ignore the comments to keep matters simple.

Regards,
-sm



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