Re: I-D Action: draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08.txt

"Scott O. Bradner" <sob@sobco.com> Wed, 30 March 2016 20:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08.txt
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this is a legal issue - the language comes from a long ago US court case

in addition to what Brian brings out 

“reasonably’ also refers to what someone should, by their job, know - i.e. a company
can not purposely keep someone in the dark to avoid disclosure requirements

Scott

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 31/03/2016 06:01, Michael Cameron wrote:
> ...
>> To clarify this, I would propose deleting the phrase "reasonably and" in Section 5.1.2.
> 
> I would object very strongly to this deletion. We have always said "reasonably and
> personally known" to make it clear that nobody is expected to go to unreasonable
> lengths to discover the existence of IPR. For anyone who works for a large company,
> it is clearly unreasonable for them to be aware of all IPR owned by that company,
> and this phrase covers that case nicely, especially given that we all participate
> and contribute here as individuals, even if we happen to use a corporate email
> address. This phrase has stood the test of time and should not be changed.
> 
> ...
>> 
> 
> Regards
>   Brian
>