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... RFC2026] Sections 2.2 and 8)
h. "IETF Documents": RFCs and Internet-Drafts except for Internet-
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(C) Where Intellectual Property Rights have been disclosed for IETF
Documents as provided in Section 6 of this document, the IETF
Executive Director shall request from the discloser of such IPR,
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The results of this procedure shall not, in themselves, block
publication of an IETF Document or advancement of an IETF
Document along the standards track. A working group may take
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... The results of this procedure shall not, in themselves, block
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
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... IETF must have change control over the technology described in
any standards track IETF Documents in order to fix problems that may
be discovered or to produce other derivative works.
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Note that there is no inherent prohibition against a standards track
IETF Document making a normative reference to proprietary technology.
For example, a number of IETF Standards support proprietary
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