who has the,problem here, really?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2009-03-13 08:02, Scott Brim wrote:
...
> This is an interesting idea.  Or even better, push it outside.  I'm
> being a little impatient here but I've been taught to ask who has the
> problem here, really?  It's the people who want to use the work
> outside of the IETF.  

That's correct, and it's quite clear that ultimately there is no
way out of that. However, the case made during the IPR WG discussions
was that it isn't just the 1 in a thousand case of handing off a standard
to another SDO that matters. It's any case where a 3rd party wants to
use text for any purpose, such as commenting a piece of code or
writing a product manual. That's why, IMHO, a reasonable effort as
described in draft-carpenter-5378-old-text is a reasonable thing to
require. To my mind that is the main discussion point here.

   Brian