Re: Conclusion of Last Call for draft-ietf-sieve-convert anddraft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message

["t.petch" <[e-mail]>]

Pete

I agree with what you have done but would like to see it recorded in something
more accessible than an e-mail archive.  Could it be added to the data tracker,
under IESG evaluation or IESG writeup or some such?

Tom Petch


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Resnick" <[e-mail]>
To: "IETF-Discussion list" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:32 PM
> I wanted to inform the community of the results of the second Last Call
> issued for draft-ietf-sieve-convert and
> draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message. To remind you of the circumstances:
> After these two documents were approved by the IESG and sent on to the
> RFC Editor, an IPR disclosure was made pertaining to each of them
> indicating that one of the document editors for both documents was also
> the listed inventor for the disclosed patent. The disclosures were made
> by the document editor's employer and indicate that the date of the
> patent filings was prior to the adoption of these two drafts by the
> SIEVE working group. The RFC Editor was asked to suspend their work on
> the documents, and a second Last Call was made.
>
> After reviewing discussions in the SIEVE WG and on the IETF mailing
> list, the chairs have decided (and I support) that, because of the
> failure to disclose the IPR as required by BCP 79 (RFC 3979), and as per
> RFC 2418 Section 6.1, the following actions are appropriate and will be
> taken:
>
> - The document editor in question is no longer a document editor for
> these two documents.
> - The person's name will be removed from the front page of the documents
> and from the Authors' Address section.
> - The person's name will be added to the Acknowledgments section of both
> documents to identify that he did contribute text to the drafts.
> - The RFC Editor will be asked to continue processing and publication of
> these drafts as RFCs.
>
> We will be notifying the RFC Editor of this decision presently.
>
> Meanwhile, the employer of the document editor in question has made
> followup disclosures on each of the documents, saying that they
> "covenant not to assert any such claim against any party for making,
> using, selling, offering for sale or importing a product that implements
> the corresponding part of the specification." The full text of the
> disclosures can be seen here:
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1680/
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1681/
>
> pr
>
> --
> Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
> Qualcomm Incorporated - Direct phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
>