Subject: [dhcwg] IPR Disclosure Requirements - Please READ & NOTE!

From: "Bernie Volz (volz)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:55:33 +0000

A reminder:

Please note that the obligation to disclose IPR regarding an IETF document exists as soon as the author knows a patent application will be filed or intends to file for one, not at the time the patent is issued, and not at some later date when the company decides what sort of terms they want to ask for.  If the patent is not granted, or a decision is made on licensing terms, the company can amend the IPR disclosure.

And, here's a resend of an email I sent to the DHC WG Mailing List recently:

The following is a good reminder about the IETF IPR policy that Kathleen Moriarty sent to the MILE WG in August 2012. I replaced MILE with DHC:

Dear DHC WG:
As DHC WG chairs, we would like to minimize or hopefully even eliminate late disclosures relating to documents under consideration within the DHC WG.  Therefore you might see us send "reminder" messages in the future to authors or to the DHC WG email list as a whole, asking people whether they know of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) relating to specific documents.  In order to comply with IETF processes and avoid unnecessary delays, document authors and contributors to our discussions in the DHC WG are asked to pay careful attention to these messages and to reply in a timely fashion.
Please note that these messages are only reminders of existing IETF policy, and we are all bound by that policy even in the absence of such reminder messages.  Everyone who participates in the Internet Standards Process (whether by posting to IETF mailing lists, authoring documents, attending IETF meetings, or in other ways) needs to be aware of the IETF rules with regard to IPR.  These rules are described in BCP79 and can be referenced through http://www.ietf.org/ipr/policy.html.  In addition, online tools for filing IPR disclosures can be found at http://www.ietf.org/ipr/file-disclosure.  Finally, existing disclosures can be searched online at https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/.
Also note that these are personal requirements applying to all IETF participants as individuals, and that these requirements also apply to all participants in the DHC WG.
Thanks,
Bernie & Tomek
(DHC WG Co-chairs)