Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

["TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

IPR's are forever - they can be updated but they will exist forever.  Once 
filed the IPR is the property of the IETF and is published with its works 
under the same copyright rules too right?

Todd Glassey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>
To: "Ted Hardie" <hardie at qualcomm.com>
Cc: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf at jck.com>; "Simon Josefsson" 
<simon at josefsson.org>; "Powers Chuck-RXCP20" <Chuck.Powers at motorola.com>; 
"IETF Discussion" <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?


> On 2008-08-16 10:48, Ted Hardie wrote:
> ...
> > Reading through this, I see that the recommendation that
> > an IPR discloser "withdraw a previous disclosure if a revised
> > Contribution negates the previous IPR disclosure" made it into
> > the BCP.  Someone else will have to decide if this is already
> > consonant with Paul's suggestion, or whether it would have
> > to be amended.
>
> "Withdraw" does not imply "remove", of course. To me, it has
> always meant "update the existing disclosure to state that
> it does not apply to the later draft." It still applies to
> the earlier draft, and that earlier draft is still an
> IETF Contribution for all eternity.
>
>   Brian
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