Re: "implementor" wording in draft-ietf-ipr-template-05.txt

Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Fri, 08 August 2003 18:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: "implementor" wording in draft-ietf-ipr-template-05.txt
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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:22:39 -0400
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
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Responding to Scott under this subject:

Scott  Bradner <sob@harvard.edu> writes:

> as far as defining the term in the template - the most I would suggest
> to to have a place for the person filling out the teplate to
> say who the free license covers - I see no reason that we should
> restrict or define what the IPR discloser wants to say about 
> who can implement their technology for what type of license

The above would work for me too (but why restrict to only "free
license"?).

What I want to be clear about is, that if someone fills out a
template, there is no misunderstanding about who is covered or needs
to be aware. To me, "implementor", without any definition, seems
vague, especially given the much more explicit definition p. , in the
technology-rights document.

Thomas

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