RE: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

["Lawrence Rosen" <[e-mail]>]

Steven Bellovin wrote:
> All that said, the above is my strawman that I've just torched.  This
> is why we need a draft -- until we have one, we won't know if it's a
> plausible, useful idea or not.  In fact, a metadraft -- one that simply
> set out the questions that a concrete proposal should address -- would
> be a worthwhile contribution in its own regard.

In honor of open source, I'm glad to submit someone else's work as my first
draft: http://www.w3.org/2004/pp/psig/.

This is an effective working model. I'm sure it would have to be revised to
fit IETF's more democratic operations. 

For a detailed description, see
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/. In particular see
section 7. [This is a document I helped a little bit to write, several years
ago.]

Kudos to our friends in W3C for doing this well.

/Larry



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