Effective vs intended handling of patent encumbrance in IETF wg and IESG
Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com> Thu, 07 June 2007 15:26 UTC
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Subject: Effective vs intended handling of patent encumbrance in IETF wg and IESG
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For your information: In draft-ietf-dnsext-rollover-requirements, an IETF wg effectively made an a-priori decision to avoid the consideration of an IPR encumbered alternative; the problem area being DNSSEC trust anchor key management. I spare you the details of how the wg came to this decision, and how it relates to the a-priori rejected alternative. Now that the IESG accepted the above draft for publication as an RFC, it becomes a procedural precedent for attempts to expeditiously restrict IETF activities to IPR unencumbered alternatives. Conversely, it reinforces the economic incentive for medium and large organizations to isolate the individuals participating in the IETF activities from the patent application management process. Also, the above draft publication decision, in a context where the problem area is still lacking a solution with a reasonable explicit security model, is an empirical observation of the IETF strong preference for "ignoring the technology" (instead of "ignoring the IPR") when a tradeoff has to be made. Inescapably then, the aggregate scope and field of application of IETF protocols is deemed to shrink as innovation enhances the networking technology. Please note that I am not well aware of the detailed procedural and institutional arrangements that implement RFC3979, before the appeal process can correct deviations. While I was participating in the above matter, I chose not to rely on the appeal process, perhaps because it wasn't clear to me how things should have gone in the first place. P.S. Since even RFC3979 itself is absent from the IETF ipr wg charter; perhaps the above is totally off-topic. Regards, -- - Thierry Moreau CONNOTECH Experts-conseils inc. 9130 Place de Montgolfier Montreal, Qc Canada H2M 2A1 Tel.: (514)385-5691 Fax: (514)385-5900 web site: http://www.connotech.com e-mail: thierry.moreau@connotech.com _______________________________________________ Ipr-wg mailing list Ipr-wg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipr-wg
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