On 11/6/2012 10:14 AM, Ted Hardie wrote:
That puts the most important information higher up the text and, to my eyes at least, makes it more prominent.
+1 On 11/6/2012 12:38 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
{ the directive here is remarkably soft. much too soft, IMO. a sentence structure that's a bit too complicated. so...} A contribution by you consists of anything you write, say or discuss in any IETF context. If you are aware that any contribution you make is covered by a patent or a patent application, you are REQUIRED to disclose that fact IMMEDIATELY.I note that this is not the same language as is in BCP 79, which says: " as soon as reasonably possible " instead of IMMEDIATELY. I don't believe the NOTE WELL should disagree with the BCP on that point.
Thanks for checking the BCP language. Hadn't occurred to me that it had anything close to an 'urgency' tone. Yes, we should use exactly the same text here, IMO.
My main concern is that the summary communicate both an imperative to report and a directive that it be done real soon.
d/ d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net