On 17/09/2013 08:10, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Sep 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is a claim in the boilerplate which the IETF, not the authors, are making. > > I am sure flames are already directed my way for being imprecise here, but what I mean is that although the authors put this boilerplate in the document, the IETF, through the document publication process, effectively affirms that the authors have made this claim, so it's entirely reasonable for us to double-check that all of the authors of a document know they are making this claim, and that it isn't something that one author put in without asking the others about it, and that all the authors actually understand what the boilerplate says. Yes. And as an author, I have never been offended by being asked, for recent RFCs, if I had in fact done what the BCPs specify, which is to disclose (or arrange to be disclosed) IPR of which I was reasonably and personally aware. I believe this question was added to the procedure after one or two cases where authors had not done so. Brian