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Re: Effective vs intended handling of patent encumbrance in IETF wg and IESG



I must admit I'm lost here.

All the dates I can find are:

- November 20, 2006: draft-ietf-dnsext-rollover-requirements-04 published
- February 26, 2007: draft-koch-dnsop-resolver-priming published
- March 19, 2007: DNS resolver priming discussed in Prague @DNSOP
- April 19, 2007: Patent request filed in Canada
- April 20, 2007: draft-moreau-srvloc-dnssec-priming-00 is published
- May 9, 2007: draft-moreau-srvloc-dnssec-priming-01 is published
- May 10, 2007: Thierry Moreau informally discloses existence of IPR
- June 5, 2007: Thierry Moreau formally discloses existence of patent applciation


Unless time travel is involved, I cannot see any way the current existence of the patent application filed in April 2007 can have influenced the draft published in November 2006.

What have I failed to understand?

                Harald

--On 8. juni 2007 14:52 -0700 Lucy Lynch <llynch at civil-tongue.net> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

On 2007-06-05 15:24, Thierry Moreau wrote:
For your information:

In draft-ietf-dnsext-rollover-requirements, an IETF wg effectively made
an  a-priori decision to avoid the consideration of an IPR encumbered
alternative; the problem area being DNSSEC trust anchor key management.
I  spare you the details of how the wg came to this decision, and how
it  relates to the a-priori rejected alternative.

Now that the IESG accepted the above draft for publication as an RFC,
it  becomes a procedural precedent for attempts to expeditiously
restrict IETF  activities to IPR unencumbered alternatives.

Our rules have allowed WGs to choose to favor unencumbered solutions for many years. You'd have to be much more specific about what you mean by 'a priori' to explain why you think this is a precedent.

a bit of catch up for those who aren't following DNSSEC

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg05465.html
  https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=856
  http://www.connotech.com/optin_for_dnssec.pdf
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg05527.html

     Brian

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