On 4/30/12 10:27 AM, The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > - 'Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) > Disclosure Rules' > <draft-polk-ipr-disclosure-03.txt> as Informational RFC > > 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 2012-05-28. Tim and I received actionable feedback on this list from Stephan Wenger and Subramanian Moonesamy during the Last Call [1] [2], and Stephan has publicly verified that his concerns were addressed [3] (SM contacted me offlist to the same effect). A full diff is at [4], but in brief the main changes were as follows: 1. Tightened some terminology (e.g., changed "limitations" to "licensing requirements" and, in several places, "IETF participants" to "IETF contributors" and "authors" to "authors and listed contributors") and explicitly defined the terms "formal disclosure" and "informal disclosure". 2. Clarified that this document does *not* define best current practices but instead suggests some strategies that ADs, WG chairs, and WG secretaries might want to use. 3. Mentioned that, if informal disclosure is allowed in a meeting, chairs ought to capture such statements in the meeting minutes. 4. Removed a misleading statement that silence could be interpreted as as a weak "no". 5. Removed any suggestion that non-receipt of IPR disclosures could be interpreted by ADs or WG chairs as necessarily blocking any advancement of an I-D. 6. Tweaked the sample email messages to improve their readability and better align with the body of the document. Peter [1] https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=933&k2=63103&tid=1339642625 [2] https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=933&k2=63414&tid=1339642383 [3] https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=933&k2=63596&tid=1339642383 [4] http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-polk-ipr-disclosure-04.txt