It's not listed under the General area because the working group disbanded when its RFCs were finished. IETF working groups do not last forever; when their work is done, they're shut down. The last charter is at https://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipr.html As for IETF management support -- Rob Austein and I were the original chairs. At the time, I was on the IESG and he was on the IAB. Rob was succeed as co-chair by Harald Alvestrand, the immediate past chair of the IETF. So yes, it did have full support. On Jan 19, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jorge, > > I never heard of this WG, is it a IETF WG, why it is not under the > General Area. This is very strange, when checking the WGs there is no > WG under General Area, is there explaination, please advise, > > It is not active maybe because not represented well, or the management > of IETF was not interested in such WG, I am not sure :-( . IMO, I am > not encouraged to participate only if this WG is IETF WG under an IETF > Area, but I will read to see WG progress and/or future, > > Regards > > AB > ++++ > All - I wanted to bring to your attention that a new I-D relating to > the IETF's patent policy (BCP79) has been released and is being > discussed on the IPR-WG mailing list. I am taking the liberty of > letting everyone know, since the IPR-WG list hasn't been particularly > active over the past few years, and this is an important policy > document that the community should be aware of. > > > I look forward to the discussion! > > > Jorge Contreras > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb