Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules
RFC 6702
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Polk
Request for Comments: 6702 NIST
Category: Informational P. Saint-Andre
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems, Inc.
August 2012
Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Disclosure Rules
Abstract
The disclosure process for intellectual property rights (IPR) in
documents produced within the IETF stream is essential to the
accurate development of community consensus. However, this process
is not always followed by IETF participants. Regardless of the cause
or motivation, noncompliance with IPR disclosure rules can delay or
even derail completion of IETF specifications. This document
describes some strategies for promoting compliance with the IPR
disclosure rules. These strategies are primarily intended for use by
area directors, working group chairs, and working group secretaries.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6702.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Terminology ................................................4
2. Background ......................................................4
3. Strategies for Working Group Documents ..........................5
3.1. Presenting an Internet-Draft at an IETF Meeting ............5
3.2. Requesting WG Adoption .....................................6
3.3. Requesting WG Last Call ....................................6
3.4. AD Review ..................................................7
3.5. IETF Last Call .............................................7
4. Strategies for Individual Submissions ...........................8
4.1. Presenting an Internet-Draft at an IETF Meeting ............8
4.2. AD Review ..................................................8
4.3. IETF Last Call .............................................9
5. A Note about Preliminary Disclosures ............................9
6. Conclusions .....................................................9
7. Security Considerations .........................................9
8. References .....................................................10
8.1. Normative References ......................................10
8.2. Informative References ....................................10
Appendix A. Sample Messages .......................................11
A.1. General WG Reminder ........................................11
A.2. Reminder to Meeting Presenter ..............................12
A.3. Reminder before WG Adoption of an Individual
Internet-Draft .............................................13
A.4. Reminder before Working Group Last Call ....................14
A.5. Reminder to Authors and Listed Contributors of a
Working Group Document before IETF Last Call ...............15
A.6. Reminder to Author of an Individual Submission before
IETF Last Call .............................................15
Appendix B. Acknowledgements ......................................16
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1. Introduction
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