Discussion of BCP79 on the IPR-WG List

2013-01-19 Thread Jorge Contreras
All - I wanted to bring to your attention that a new I-D relating to the IETF's patent policy (BCP79) has been released and is being discussed on the IPR-WG mailing list. I am taking the liberty of letting everyone know, since the IPR-WG list hasn't been particularly active over the past few

RE: Discussion of BCP79 on the IPR-WG List

2013-01-19 Thread Adrian Farrel
Just to help this along a bit... The IPR WG was concluded in November 2008. However, the mailing list remained active for the discussion of IPR issues: subscribe via https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipr-wg. The list archive is at

Re: Discussion of BCP79 on the IPR-WG List

2013-01-19 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Jorge, I never heard of this WG, is it a IETF WG, why it is not under the General Area. This is very strange, when checking the WGs there is no WG under General Area, is there explaination, please advise, It is not active maybe because not represented well, or the management of IETF was not

Re: Discussion of BCP79 on the IPR-WG List

2013-01-19 Thread Steven Bellovin
It's not listed under the General area because the working group disbanded when its RFCs were finished. IETF working groups do not last forever; when their work is done, they're shut down. The last charter is at https://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipr.html As for IETF management support -- Rob