Re: [dhcwg] IPR statement related to draft-ietf-dhc-subscriber-id-X.txt

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Fri, 06 February 2004 00:14 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] IPR statement related to draft-ietf-dhc-subscriber-id-X.txt
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:10:14 -0600
To: Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>
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On Feb 5, 2004, at 5:43 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
>     If a document based on this draft becomes an IETF standard 
> PacketFront is
>     prepared to license, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, 
> any
>     related PacketFront patents to the extent required to comply with
>     the standard.

> This new IPR statement is compatible with the text in section 10.3.2(C)
> of RFC 2026, and with similar IPRs on other IETF documents.  Are there
> any objections now to resuming consideration of
> draft-ietf-dhc-subscriber-id-05.txt as a Proposed Standard?

Yes.   I object, unless PacketFront states that they are willing to 
license this for free to people who agree to cross-license.   This 
functionality doesn't deserve a patent, and isn't useful enough to 
merit advancing since it is encumbered by patent applications.


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