Re: RIM patents using a mime body in a message (and ignores IETF IPR rules)

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> FWIW, I agree with Brian.  Pulling this (waiting until the IESG
> approves and only then filing the disclosure) on a media type
> registration seems particularly egregious but is, in any event,
> exactly the type of situation the IPR rules are intended to
> prevent.  Like him, I believe that the IESG can recind its
> action on this basis without having to go through the procedural
> clutter of an appeal.  In addition, if an appeal were really
> necessary, nothing prevents one or more of the IESG members who
> believe that they would have acted differently had the
> disclosure occurred on a timely basis from filing it.

+1

I'll also note that nothing prevents then from registrering this in the media
type vnd. tree.

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