Re: Third Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Bernard Aboba wrote:
> Making an example of a document does not constitute development
> of a consistent and comprehensive policy on the handling of late
> IPR disclosure.  
>
> For example, what happens if IPR disclosure occurs after RFC publication?
> This is not an abstract question -- there are cases in which IPR 
> disclosure has occurred after a document was published as a Proposed 
> Standard - RFC 3588 is an example. 


Short of requiring all contributors to sign something contractual prior to 
publication -- and even that would not provide anything close to perfect 
protection -- what could a policy do to mitigate against this kind of threat 
to the process?

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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