RE: clarification of blanket statement text


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no] 
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:43 AM
> To: rbarr@cisco.com; 'George T. Willingmyre'; 'Scott W Brim'; 
> ipr-wg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: clarification of blanket statement text
> 
> 
> 
> --On 17. februar 2005 11:21 -0800 Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> > It is interesting that several companies have submitted 
> blanket RAND (not
> > RF)  statements and they remain prominently displayed on 
> IETF website.
> > This is clearly inconsistent with 6.4.3  when it says:
> >
> > "The requirement for an IPR disclosure is not satisfied by the
> >    submission of a blanket statement of possible IPR on every
> >    Contribution.  This is the case because the aim of the disclosure
> >    requirement is to provide information about specific IPR against
> >    specific technology under discussion in the IETF.  The 
> requirement is
> >    also not satisfied by a blanket statement of willingness 
> to license
> >    all potential IPR under fair and non-discriminatory terms for the
> >    same reason. "
> 
> Agreed - these companies will have to continue to make specific IPR 
> statements. Making such statements is consistent with the 
> RFC, and provides 
> information to the IETF community - which I think is a Good 
> Thing - but 
> they do not lessen the requirement on the companies that make them.
> 
>                            Harald
They should be marked non-compliant, as is done with other types of
statements. Why is it consistent w RFC?? The excerpt above says "requirement
not satisfied"

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