On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked to present any of them at the IETF. I claim to work for Check Point, and my email address tends to suggest it, but a lot of participants use gmail addresses. So, you pay cash when you register? It would probably be difficult to keep your identity secret if there were a discovery process during a patent trial. You would also have to lie on the stand, and risk severe repercussions if your lie were revealed. So yes, this is a problem, but it's not clear to me that it's a serious problem.