Re: [apps-discuss] Stewart Bryant's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis-09: (with DISCUSS)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 03 July 2013 15:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Stewart Bryant's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis-09: (with DISCUSS)
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>This update to RFC5451 introduces text containing what are almost
>certainly the trade marked names of a number of products. This does not
>seem to be called out in the text, which may be a problem for the trade
>mark owners.
>
>My question (to the IESG) is whether this is something that we need to
>worry about, or something that we just leave for the RFC Editor to deal
>with.

The IETF is under no duty to acknowledge or otherwise defend
trademarks of third parties (despite the legend about the Unix
trademark.)

This sounds like a question that would better be directed to Jorge.

R's,
John