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... context of this document, the IETF includes all
individuals who participate in meetings, working groups, mailing
lists, functions and other activities which are organized or
initiated by ISOC ...
... IETF plenary session,
o any IETF working group or portion thereof,
o the IESG, or any member thereof on behalf of the IESG ...
... mailing list, including the IETF list itself, any
working group or design team list, or any other list
functioning under IETF auspices,
...
... function, that are clearly not intended to be input to an IETF
activity, group or function, are not IETF Contributions in the
context ...
... the IETF community. This is because it is becoming increasingly
common for IETF working groups to have to deal with claims of
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR ...
... IPR), such as patent rights, with
regards to technology under discussion in working groups. The aim of
this document is to clarify various ambiguities in Section 10 of
[RFC2026 ...
... e.g., before the first Internet-Draft has been submitted, prior to
RFC publication, or after an RFC has been published and the working
group has been closed down; they can come from people submitting
technical proposals as Internet-Drafts, on mailing lists ...
... Internet-Drafts, on mailing lists or at
meetings, from other people participating in the working group or
from third parties who find out that the work is going or has gone
on; and they can be based on granted patents or on patent
...
... IPR disclosures have been made if it decides that such
a use is warranted
(c) in order for the working group and the rest of the IETF to have
the information needed to make an informed decision about the use
...
... IETF to have
the information needed to make an informed decision about the use
of a particular technology, all those contributing to the working
group's discussions must disclose the existence of any IPR the
...
... Technology under one of the licensing options specified in
Section 6.5 below unless such a statement has already been
submitted. The working group proposing the use of the technology
with respect to which the Intellectual Property Rights ...
... publication of an IETF Document or advancement of an IETF
Document along the standards track. A working group may take
into consideration the results of this procedure in evaluating
the technology, and the IESG ...
...
Timely IPR disclosure is important because working groups need to
have as much information as they can while they are evaluating
alternative solutions.
...
... incorporated into a submission to be published in an Internet Draft,
or is seriously being discussed in a working group, are strongly
encouraged to make at least a preliminary disclosure. That
disclosure should be made as soon after coming to the realization as
...
... incorporated into a submission to be published in an Internet Draft,
or is seriously being discussed in a working group, are strongly
encouraged to make at least a preliminary disclosure. That
disclosure should be made as soon after coming to the realization as
...
...
Since IPR disclosures will be used by IETF working groups during
their evaluation of alternative technical solutions, it is helpful if
an IPR ...
... The inclusion of licensing information in IPR disclosures is not
mandatory but it is encouraged so that the working groups will have
as much information as they can during their deliberations. If the
inclusion of licensing information in an IPR ...
... Evaluating Alternative Technologies in IETF Working Groups ...
...
In general, IETF working groups prefer technologies with no known IPR
claims or, for technologies with claims against them, an offer of
...
... IPR
claims or, for technologies with claims against them, an offer of
royalty-free licensing. But IETF working groups have the discretion
to adopt technology with a commitment of fair and non-discriminatory
...
... applicability of any particular IPR claim, it is reasonable that a
working group will take into account on their own opinions of the
validity, enforceability or applicability of Intellectual Property
Rights ...
... security considerations when adopting any technology,
whether IPR-protected or not. A working group should take those
security considerations into account as one part of evaluating the
...
... Bradner, S., "IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures", BCP 25, RFC 2418, September 1998. ...
... The editor would like to acknowledge the help of the IETF IPR Working
Group and, in particular the help of Jorge Contreras of Hale and Dorr
for his careful legal reviews of this and other IETF IPR ...