Re: IPR Disclosure: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-rtgwg-mrt-frr-architecture-01

[Curtis Villamizar <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>
IETF Secretariat writes:
 
>  
> Dear Gabor Sandor Envedi, Alia Atlas, Robert Kebler, Andras Csaszar,
> Russ White, Mike Shand, Maciek Konstantynowicz:
>  
>  An IPR disclosure that pertains to your Internet-Draft entitled "An
> Architecture for IP/LDP Fast-Reroute Using Maximally Redundant Trees"
> (draft- ietf-rtgwg-mrt-frr-architecture) was submitted to the IETF
> Secretariat on 2012-06-18 and has been posted on the "IETF Page of
> Intellectual Property Rights Disclosures"
> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1801/). The title of the IPR
> disclosure is "Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s Statement
> about IPR related to draft-ietf-rtgwg-mrt-frr-architecture-01."");
>  
> The IETF Secretariat


Prior reasons to be hesitant about this work included the rather
substantial change to routing and forwarding, and the need to deploy
network wide (no accommodation for legacy equipment).  Regardless, it
became a WG item.

Now that there is an IPR disclosure with no statement at all regarding
licensing terms, it might be time to reconsider whether the WG should
go forward with this work.

IMHO- If the IPR disclosure is not updated with a reasonable and
non-discriminatory, preferably royalty-free, licensing statement, the
MRT work should be abandoned by RTGWG.

Curtis