Re: Document Action: 'TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with

    Discussing IPR issues burns a whole lot of resources in a useless fashion.

Since "IPR" refers to a congeries of different laws, any general
statement about "IPR issues" is almost always an overgeneralization.
Your statement is one.

Copyright issues and trademark issues generally do NOT cause serious
problems for a proposed technique, because it is easy enough to work
around them.  To discuss them here at length would probably be
superfluous.

By contrast, patent problems are often fatal, and there is no remedy
except to wait as much as 20 years.  Thus, discussing whether a
proposed technique is patented is absolutely crucial.

Lumping together things which are so different in their effects is
encouraging confusion.  Thus, using the term "IPR" does only harm.
Avoiding it is easy, so let's avoid it.  When referring to patent
issues, let's call them "patent issues".