Royalty-free does not generally mean free! It means you don't charge per-end-user, per-server fee. But it does not mean there is not fee. Plus, license terms suggest "other reasonable, non-discriminations terms" and refer to reciprocal license needed to implement standards. Notice plural.
I know the giants like Cisco and Huawei will find a common ground as they can sue each other silly with their patent portfolios. My concern is more from the perspective of having an open standard for everybody to use. I think some companies will be reluctant to use it given a law suit threat or the hustle of extra licensing. I think clarification on what is claimed are in order before investing more effort into this. Anton. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Harrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Syslog] Draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-01.txt > > Hi, > > Three things: > > 1) Whether the patent would survive a check into prior art is not > something the IETF takes a position on: > > Intellectual Property > > The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any > Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed > to > pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in > this document or the extent to which any license under such rights > might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has > made any independent effort to identify any such rights. > Information > on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be > found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. > > Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any > assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an > attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use > of > such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this > specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository > at > http://www.ietf.org/ipr. > > The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any > copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary > rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement > this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2) The company has filed a disclosure. You should read the disclosure > before losing your cool. > The disclosure says (roughly) it will license the technology > royalty-free for standards use. > > The disclosure can be found at > https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=717. > > 3) Since I work for the company filing the disclosure, I will recuse > myself from chairing this discussion. I have asked Chris to chair the > discussion. > > David Harrington > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > co-chair, Syslog WG > > > _______________________________________________ > Syslog mailing list > Syslog@lists.ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog > _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
