Subject: WG & IETF Last Calls

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:37:24 -0400

The WG Last Call text in Section 3 seems reasonable, including
the rationale that IPR concerns are likely to be well-known to
the WG, although it never hurts to remind people who may not
have been paying attention to all the mailing list traffic.

Section 4.2 says:

   The responsibility for filling the IPR parts of an IETF last call is
   with the shepherding Area Director [PROCED], but it is expected that
   in practice it's done by the working group chairs (if applicable) or
   document authors/editors.

In practice, this is likely to become an ID Nit
(http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html) that will be the responsibility
of the WG Chair(s) to carry out (summarize IPR status of draft for
which publication is requested, including explicit "any known IPR?"
query to authors).  That seems reasonable, as ID Nits are already
a mechanism for making WG Chairs (and thereby document authors/editors)
responsible for certain checks on ID format and contents.

Thanks,
--David
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