Re: Generic IPR Disclosures

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Fri, 09 May 2014 02:47 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: SM <sm@resistor.net>, "Bradner, Scott" <sob@harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Generic IPR Disclosures
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--On Thursday, 08 May, 2014 12:45 -0700 SM <sm@resistor.net>
wrote:

>...
>  From what I gathered it would not be of much use as the
> person (as described in Section 6.1.3) would be stating his or
> her willingness to license IPR that he or she does not own
> directly or indirectly.

Are you saying anything different from "a third party disclosure
may identify IPR related to a particular specification but,
obviously and logically, cannot make a binding statement about
licensing terms."?

    john