Excerpts from Thomas Narten on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 03:30:41PM -0500:
> > I definitely agree that the IETF could use some sort of permanent
> > legal IPR consulting board that WG's could go to and say 'we have
> > this IPR filing, what does it mean, and what is the likely impact on
> > our work'.
> 
> Please don't go there.
> 
> IPR consultation is all about risk analysis. And risk to the IETF
> vs. risk to me personally vs. risk to my employer vs. risk to somebody
> else's employer, etc. All are VERY different things.

We tried the idea and came to those conclusions.  All the board could
do would be to utter platitudes.  

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