Subject: RE: [AVT] Retransmission draft

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:20:38 -0600

Hi,

I think it would be good to put the current IPR situation into perspective. All that we know is that Matsushita have a patent application that could be applicable to the retransmission draft according to their judgement.
This does not mean that an actual patent will be granted or that the retransmission draft would really infringe on such a patent. At this point of time, saying that the retransmission draft is patented is only speculation. Such speculation should not in my opinion prevent the draft from progressing.

David.

> >
> > Taking all the above into account and considering that
> > independent of the patent situation this work is intended to be 
> > included in
> > the next release of 3GPP, we would like to ask the group to proceed 
> > with the
> > draft on standards track.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Jose
> 
> [takes working group chair hat off]
> 
> 3GPP is only one forum which uses IETF standards, and one 
> where dealing 
> with IPR issues is commonplace. Having patented standards is 
> more of an 
> issue for open source developers, who are often excluded by the 
> licensing terms. Would Matsushita be willing to clarify if the 
> "reasonable, nondiscriminatory" terms allow open source 
> implementations 
> to use the retransmission format (this will probably require a 
> Royalty-Free license)?
> 
> [puts working group chair hat on again]
> 
> -- 
> Colin Perkins
> http://csperkins.org/
> 
> 
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