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Re: A detail in BCP 79



Does anybody remember why this change was made? Its impact is that
the secretariat has been taking no action in response to 3rd party
disclosures. Surely this was not the intention?

    Brian

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
The track is bizarre..... the draft in question is draft-ietf-ipr-technology-rights, and the para has mutated:

-00: (C)  Where the IESG has been informed of claimed intellectual
property rights under (A), the IETF Executive Director shall
request from the claimant of such rights, a written assurance that

-03: (C)  Where intellectual property rights have been disclosed as
provided in Section 6 of this document, the IETF Executive
Director shall request from the discloser of such rights, a

I think "claimant" was ambiguous, but I can't imagine what we were thinking when we changed it to "discloser"......

--On onsdag, november 02, 2005 23:23:53 +0100 Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com> wrote:

BCP 79 (currently RFC 3979) says

   (C) Where Intellectual Property Rights have been disclosed for IETF
       Documents as provided in Section 6 of this document, the IETF
       Executive Director shall request from the discloser of such IPR,
       a written assurance that upon approval by the IESG for
       publication as RFCs of the relevant IETF specification(s), all
       persons will be able to obtain the right to implement, use,
       distribute and exercise other rights with respect to Implementing
       Technology under one of the licensing options specified in
       Section 6.5 below unless such a statement has already been
       submitted.


Now this makes no sense in the case of a third party disclosure,
since in that case the discloser does not own the IPR and
therefore cannot give such an assurance. Surely the text should say

        ...the IETF
        Executive Director shall request from the owner of such IPR,...

Is that what we meant? If so, can we handle this through the
RFC Editor errata mechanism?

     Brian




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