Re: [Teas] IPR Disclosure Infinera Corporation's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

I'm always pleased to see IPR disclosed before last call even when the disclosure is painfully late.

In this case Rajan is named as a co-inventor on the patent application (which I see at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20140156751.pdf). This patent application is dated June 5, 2014.

Rajan first became listed as a Contributor to draft-farrel-interconnected-te-info-exchange in revision -06 posted on July 25, 2014.

I may be a harsh judge, but this disclosure doesn't seem to me to have been made "as soon as reasonably possible."

That said, the cited patent application appears to describe a mechanism for backwards recursive path computation using RSVP-TE signaling (which is akin to a hybrid of RFC 5441 and RFC 4920). Such a mechanism is not proposed or even mentioned in this document, so readers may draw their own conclusions about the relevance of the disclosure.

Lastly, I note that the license terms disclosed appear to follow the "mutually assured destruction" terms commonly offered by IETF participants.

I do not propose any changes to this document resulting from this disclosure.

Adrian

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> Subject: IPR Disclosure Infinera Corporation's Statement about IPR related to
> draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange
> 
> Dear Adrian Farrel, John Drake, Dr. Nabil N. Bitar, George Swallow, Daniele
> Ceccarelli, Xian Zhang:
> 
> 
> An IPR disclosure that pertains to your Internet-Draft entitled "Problem
> Statement and Architecture for Information Exchange Between Interconnected
> Traffic Engineered Networks"
> (draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange) was submitted to the IETF
> Secretariat on  and has been posted on the "IETF Page of Intellectual Property
> Rights Disclosures" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2745/). The title of the
> IPR disclosure is "Infinera Corporation's Statement about IPR related to
> draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange"
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> IETF Secretariat