Re: Last Call on draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08.txt ("Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology")

[Scott Bradner <[e-mail]>]

this was the (strong?) consensus of the IPR BOF

Scott

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Gonzalo Camarillo <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Section 1 (Definitions), subsection k says the following:
> 
>>      Without limiting the generality of the
>>      foregoing, acting as a working group chair or Area Director
>>      constitutes "Participating" in all activities of the relevant
>>      working group or area.
> 
> The AD of a large area may not get to read all individual I-Ds or all
> email messages sent in all the WGs of the area. We may want to define
> this a bit more explicitly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gonzalo
> 
> On 22/03/2016 2:17 PM, Jari Arkko wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> RFC 3979 was published in 2005. Since then we’ve gathered a lot of experience, and we’d like to update the RFC with that experience. This isn’t a revolution of the IETF IPR approach, it is mostly about clarification, better documentation, and recognising some other new RFCs and changes. But the document itself has changed quite a lot and structured differently than RFC 3979 was.
>> 
>> Some of the main issues (such as how to define participation) were discussed in the IETF-87 meeting, but there are also a number of other changes in this document. Please give this document a careful read, and let us know your feedback.
>> 
>> I am starting a last call on this document today, but gave a longer last call period to make sure everyone has enough time to comment after IETF-95 as well. And thanks for the comments that some of you have already sent after the document was published; we’ve observed them and will make them part of the feedback from the Last Call.
>> 
>> The document is available here:
>> 
>>   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradner-rfc3979bis/
>>   https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08
>> 
>> Jari Arkko (as the responsible AD for this document)
>> 
>