[mpls] Re: Concern over IPR disclosure: IPR Disclosure Juniper Networks, Inc.'s Statement about IPR related to draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector

[Vishnu Pavan Beeram <[e-mail]>]

Juniper disclosed IPR (US17/527806) against draft-jags-mpls-mna-hdr on
October 24, 2022 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/5828/) We erred in not
doing the due diligence to verify if US17/527806 had any specific clauses
pertinent to draft-li-mpls-mna-fas-00 at the time of initial publication
(October 25, 2022). We apologize for this oversight and any inconvenience
caused by the delayed disclosure. We are grateful for the pre-WG-adoption
MPLS WG IPR process for helping us catch and rectify this before it is too
late. We will reevaluate our internal processes to ensure no such oversight
is repeated.

Regards,
-Pavan (on behalf of the inventors)

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As you know, when an I-D is posted it contains boilerplate text that says
> that all the named authors agree to ensure IPR disclosure according to the
> IETF's IPR policies. In summary, authors agree to make a "timely"
> disclosure of any IPR that may reasonably be aware of that relates to the
> I-D. The term "timely" is, of course, up for debate, and "reasonable
> awareness" might be constrained by not having access to the entirety of a
> company's portfolio but would probably include being an inventor on a
> patent.
>
> This disclosure which has just been made for
> draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector relates to US patent application
> US17/527,806 (made 2021-11-16) which was granted as US11770331B1 (on
> 2023-09-26). It appears that two of the I-D authors were named inventors on
> the patent.
>
> The draft was originally posted as draft-li-mpls-mna-fas-00 on 2022-10-25,
> renamed to draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector-00 on 2023-05-05, and updated in
> June 2024 and January this year.
>
> While it is clear that the explicit poll of the authors prior to a working
> group adoption poll has successfully caused disclosure of the IPR, the
> authors who are also inventors need to explain how come they missed this
> before. Then the chairs, with reference to RFC 6701, can suggest what
> should happen next.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IETF Secretariat <[e-mail]>
> Sent: 31 January 2025 19:00
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: [mpls] IPR Disclosure Juniper Networks, Inc.'s Statement about
> IPR related to draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector
>
> Dear Tony Li, John Drake, Vishnu Pavan Beeram, Tarek Saad, Israel Meilik:
>
>
> An IPR disclosure that pertains to your Internet-Draft entitled "MPLS
> Network
> Actions for Network Resource Partition Selector"
> (draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector) was submitted to the IETF Secretariat on
> 2025-01-31 and has been posted on the "IETF Page of Intellectual Property
> Rights Disclosures" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/6628/) The title of
> the IPR disclosure is "Juniper Networks, Inc.'s Statement about IPR related
> to draft-li-mpls-mna-nrp-selector"
>
>
> Thank you
>
> IETF Secretariat
>
>
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