I want to make the IETF community aware that Alcatel Lucent has withdrawn their
original IPR disclosure regarding RFC 6073, and Alcatel Lucent has submitted a
replacement statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1589/
I want to highlight one thing that is unique in this particular disclosure.
I do not find any IPR disclosures against draft-ietf-pwe3-segmented-pw, the
Internet-Draft that became RFC 6073. As a result, I am very concerned by the
extremely late notice of patents by Alcatel Lucent, especially since RFC 6073
and the patent have a common author. This fact makes it very cl