Re: IETF Trust FAQ

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> Jorge Contreras wrote:
>   
> > However, if a license is granted
> > under patents under 3.3.a, it is very limited and only extends to
> > standards
> > development work within the IETF.
> >     
>
> That is precisely my point, and perhaps Simon's also. Well said!
>   
But has nothing to do with the extraction of code from RFCs, which is 
what Simon started talking about.
>   
> > The licenses under 3.3.a (other than 3.3.a.E, see below)
> > do NOT grant any rights to implement IETF standards
> > in products.  IETF Contributors are NOT required to grant patent
> > licenses to implementers.  This has always been IETF's policy, and
> > there is no ambiguity here.
> >     
>
> And that is why this is, and always has been, a policy issue. You can't
> solve this by merely restating the previous position of IETF that you don't
> care about receiving patent grants from contributors for the making and
> using of their contributions in both open source and proprietary
> implementations. This isn't just an engineering game. We create standards to
> enable functional implementations, not for the expressive beauty of the
> specifications.
>   
are you still talking about the issue of extracting code from RFCs, or 
have you switched to talking about the IETF's patent policy?

The latter is not a work item of this WG at this time, but if you want 
to discuss it, please change the subject line.

                    Harald


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