Re: [NSIS] IPR Disclosure: The Trustees of Columbia University inthe City of New York's Statement about IPRrelated to draft-ietf-nsis-tunnel-13

[Lars Eggert <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

I want to again make very sure that it's clear that I'm sending this email as an individual. My opinion here might be in the rough of the eventual WG consensus, and that will be fine. As an AD, I will process these documents following the WG consensus, once the chairs have declared it.

But I also want to make it clear what my personal opinion is, and why I have reached it.

This is one of the most blatant cases of late IPR declaration that I have seen in during my time on the IESG. The IETF process has been continuously violated by the contributors for apparently at least five years. 

I personally see no need for the WG to spend _any_ time investigating this IPR disclosure and how to deal with it. We should drop the work item and move on. There need to be consequences for IETF process violations of this magnitude. 

The document that the IPR was declared on is at best peripheral to the NSIS specification suite, so dropping the work item will affect no other work items anywhere in the IETF.

Lars (as an individual)