IPR (Patents) IETF IPR (patent) rules in RFC 3668 Current IETF rules require disclosure of your own IPR in your own submissions & submissions of others “reasonably and personally” known IPR i.e., no patent search required WG takes IPR into account when choosing technology RFC 3669 gives background and guidance Push from open source people for RF-only process consensus to not change to mandatory RF-only but many WGs tend to want RF or IPR-free |