On 17/09/2013 08:10, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Sep 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote: >> This is a claim in the boilerplate which the IETF, not the authors, are >> making. > > I am sure flames are already directed my way for being imprecise here, but > what I mean is that although the authors put this boilerplate in the > document, the IETF, through the document publication process, effectively > affirms that the authors have made this claim, so it's entirely reasonable > for us to double-check that all of the authors of a document know they are > making this claim, and that it isn't something that one author put in without > asking the others about it, and that all the authors actually understand what > the boilerplate says.
Yes. And as an author, I have never been offended by being asked, for recent RFCs, if I had in fact done what the BCPs specify, which is to disclose (or arrange to be disclosed) IPR of which I was reasonably and personally aware. I believe this question was added to the procedure after one or two cases where authors had not done so. Brian
