RE: draft-ietf-ipr-template-02.txt

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> And for the idea of disclosing IPR referenced in email 
> messages..... have we had a single example of someone 
> filing an IPR disclosure on anything specific that is 
> *not* a document?
	Well, I sent mail to SIMPLE some months ago with a "Third-Party"
warning that *if* they were to consider a particular method, they would
run into IPR problems because of a patent. My mail was about a document
that didn't exist at the time I wrote the mail but that might exist in
the future. (Note: A document does now exist...)
	Had I been the patent-holder, I might have wanted to file the
IPR disclosure as a form of "prior notice" to ensure that the WG knew
about my claims prior to doing any work in the area. Sometimes, you can
see the logical flow of the WG well enough that you can be pretty sure
that they will get around to working in some particular area long before
they actually do. (That is, of course, assuming that it is a WG that
actually makes progress...) 

		bob wyman

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