--On Sunday, August 04, 2013 19:31 +0000 Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you came to the IETF and were working for company X, > registered pseudonymously, and didn't disclose IPR belonging > to you or company X, and then later company X sued someone for > using their IPR, you and company X would get raked over the > coals, jointly and severally; the deliberate attempt to > deceive would make things worse for you. And that's the > point: to provide you with a strong disincentive to doing such > a thing. So whether the rules prevent you from being > anonymous, or prevent you from suing, everybody's happy. If company X wanted to collaborate with Yoav in preserving his pseudonym (i.e., not disclosing the binding to his name), they could presumably file a disclosure without identifying the particular employee for whom the disclosure was made. Especially with the ambiguities created by anonymous and pseudonymous remote participation, I assume we would not decline to post an IPR disclosure from an organization on the grounds that we didn't know who was affiliated with it who participated in the IETF. > (IANAL, so I'm just explaining my understanding of the > situation.) ditto. best, john