On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Hector Santos wrote:
I don't see a legal issue or lost of trademark infringement protection for the reason stated. I would suggest that, if necessary, the IETF could still legally list "IETF Secretariat" as a trademark <TM>, just not registered (R)
Yes. However, I don't understand what is the real value of that registered mark. I don't understand why it was started/continued in the first place for such volunteering organisation. If IETF community agree/identifies that there are some values, then we can find alternatives. Mostly we only need the one IETF trademark.
AB