[Taking off my RealNetworks hat and putting on my IMTC CTO hat...] Sorry if you get this multiple times,
A while back there were some threads going on pre-existing IPR for IP telephony and I encouraged people to drop the topic on the reflectors due to the unknown impact it may have on your causes to discuss and share information in that manner. Today I wanted to follow up by letting you all know about a valuable resource from IMTC which you can both leverage and help strengthen: The IMTC has an IPR AG which is developing a Multimedia Standards Historical Archive which contains contributions to standards meetings, reports, records of IPR licensing declarations, copies of standard organizations patent databases, publications such as journal articles, books, etc. See below for the process to contact the IMTC Secretariat if you think you have actual historical documentation that can benefit the archive. (or for that matter, want to join IMTC so that you can leverage the archive!) While the mail below is targeted at member companies, we also encourage non-members with documentation of interest to submit via the same process indicated below. (Please don't reply to this mail to the misc reflectors...) Thanks, Chris Steck CTO of IMTC -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Luthi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:55 AM To: IMTC Members Subject: [imtcmembers] IMTC Multimedia Standards Historical Archive - contributions? Dear IMTC Members, Many of you are aware of the existence of the IMTC Multimedia Standards Historical Archive and an increasing number of you are regularly consulting it. The IMTC Multimedia Standards Historical Archive contains contributions to standards meetings, reports, records of IPR licensing declarations, copies of standard organizations patent databases, publications such as journal articles, books, etc. Much of this information originated 10 to 25 years ago. Due to the huge amount of information, and the difficulty to find old documentation, archives containing this kind of information are incomplete, and must be built up step by step. For example, the ITU keeps fairly good records on ITU-T SG level, but none on the Rapporteurs Group level, which is the most important for IPR work. In addition, prior to 1995, the majority of records were still paper, making them almost inaccessible for today's purposes. Thanks to contributions made by members, we are slowly building up the IMTC archive. We would like to encourage members to submit their own old archived records to the IMTC to help us adding value to the historical archive. These contributions can be made in paper form, scanned copies of documents, or electronic files. Anything related to our industry that can help us complete our existing documentation is useful. We kindly ask members, willing to submit their records, to first send a list of documents to the Secretariat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This will allow the IPR Activity Group to check if those documents are not already archived in the database and that way avoid submission of numerous duplicate records. For any questions on the Historical Archive or submissions of documents, please feel free to contact Jim Polizotto, IMTC Secretary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thank you and best regards, Patrick Luthi IMTC Vice President --- _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip
