Re: IPR disclosure and <draft-ietf-dhc-subscriber-id-06.txt>

On Jun 3, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Naiming Shen wrote:
> Have you read the page on http://www.ietf.org/ipr.html ?

Personally, I don't care if the RFCs are free from IPR claims, and 
indeed the mere lack of IPR claims in the IETF IPR repository doesn't 
mean no such claims exist.   However, I do think that we shouldn't 
advance drafts to RFC when there are IPR claims on the technology in 
the draft unless either there is a really strong need for the 
technology described in the draft that overrides our concerns about IPR 
issues, or the IPR notice includes a disclaimer that offers real 
protection to implementors as well as to the person who is making the 
IPR claim.

And just to be clear, the IETF's assertions regarding the text of 
internet drafts is a very different thing than patents.   I think we're 
mostly concerned about patents here, although certainly we also don't 
want to put copyrighted text into RFCs where we don't have permission 
to do so.