Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979
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INTERNET-DRAFT                                             Thomas Narten
                                                                     IBM
<draft-narten-ipr-3979-3rd-party-fix-00.txt>            October 13, 2006

      Clarification of the 3rd Party Disclosure procedure in RFC 3979

               <draft-narten-ipr-3979-3rd-party-fix-00.txt>

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Abstract

   This document clarifies and updates a single sentence in RFC 3979.
   Specifically, when 3rd party IPR disclosures are made, the intention
   is that the IETF Executive Director notify the IPR holder that a 3rd
   party disclosure has been filed, and to ask the IPR holder whether
   they have any disclosure that needs to be made, per applicable
   RFC3979 rules.

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Contents

   Status of this Memo..........................................    1

   1.  Introduction.............................................    2

   2.  The Fix..................................................    2

   3.  Security Considerations..................................    3

   4.  IANA Considerations......................................    3

   5.  Acknowledgments..........................................    3

   6.  Notes (To be removed upon RFC Publication)...............    3

   7.  Normative References.....................................    3

   8.  Author's Address.........................................    3

1.  Introduction

   This document clarifies and updates a single sentence in RFC 3979
   [RFC3979]. Specifically, when 3rd party IPR disclosures are made, the
   intention is that the IETF Executive Director notify the IPR holder
   that a 3rd party disclosure has been filed, and to ask the IPR holder
   whether they have any disclosure that needs to be made, per
   applicable RFC3979 rules.

   This document updates RFC 3979.

2.  The Fix

   RFC3979, Section 4 (C), states:

    (C) Where Intellectual Property Rights have been disclosed for IETF
        Documents as provided in Section 6 of this document, the IETF
        Executive Director shall request from the discloser of such IPR,
        a written assurance that upon approval by the IESG for
        publication as RFCs of the relevant IETF specification(s), all
        persons will be able to obtain the right to implement, use,
        distribute and exercise other rights with respect to
        Implementing Technology under one of the licensing options
        specified in Section 6.5 below unless such a statement has
        already been submitted.

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   In the case of third party disclosures, it makes no sense to ask the
   discloser about potential licensing terms, since they do not own the
   IPR. Instead, it only makes sense to ask the IPR holder.

   This document updates RFC3979 by changing the word "discloser" to
   "IPR holder" in the above text.

3.  Security Considerations

   This document has no known security implications.

4.  IANA Considerations

   This document makes no requests to IANA.

5.  Acknowledgments

6.  Notes (To be removed upon RFC Publication)

   This topic was discussed during the March, 2006 IPR WG meeting in
   Dallas. See the minutes under the section "3rd Party Disclosure
   Verification" at
   http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/minutes/ipr.txt.

   The topic was also discussed on the mailing list after the Dallas
   meeting.

7.  Normative References

   [RFC3979] "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology," S.
        Bradner, Ed.,
             RFC 3979, March 2005.

8.  Author's Address

   Thomas Narten
   IBM Corporation
   3039 Cornwallis Ave.
   PO Box 12195 - BRQA/502
   Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2195

   Phone: 919-254-7798

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   EMail: narten@us.ibm.com

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