Re: [rtcweb] Matthew's response to straw poll

[cowwoc <[e-mail]>]

On 20/12/2013 12:32 PM, SM wrote:
> Hi Gili,
> At 08:50 20-12-2013, cowwoc wrote:
>> One idea I was toying with is having everyone chip into a legal pool. 
>> We would then use this money to contract the services of an odd 
>> number of legal firms (1 or 3) picked at random that would share 
>> their legal opinion on the IPR situation of VP8 and H.264, followed 
>> by H.263, H.261, Theora if there is enough money.
>
> [snip]
>
>> The IETF is not the only organization to run into this kind of 
>> situation. The first approach I've mentioned is inspired by a 
>> real-life organization that I'm familiar with.
>
> The situation is not an IETF problem.  It is a problem for the RTCWEB 
> working group.  I don't think that it would be appropriate for the 
> working group as a whole to contract the services of one or more legal 
> firms as that might cause other problems.

What problems are you referring to? If money is the problem then it 
seems to me that it would be a lot cheaper to contract this once across 
RTCWEB than have every single organization contract their own lawyer.

Gili