Re: [Idr] IPR in draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-14 [was: Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-14]

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 16 October 2017 16:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] IPR in draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-14 [was: Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-idr-bgp-optimal-route-reflection-14]
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> While I am still in process of getting full clarification from Cisco
> on what has been filed without authors knowledge I think the message
> you got from Serpil is incorrect.
> 
> To the best of my current understanding cisco filed some patents with
> claims describing implementation solutions used to implement ideas
> from ORR document not to claim IPR rights to such ideas itself.
> 
> Both are very different and I do not understand while the former would
> in any way impact the IETF process.

perhaps we should let the lawyers be lawyers and we stick to
engineering?  

randy