22 Dec
2010
22 Dec
'10
3:25 p.m.
WRT IPR issues: I think we just have to push forward on the assumption that all IPR holders who are part of the process will do their duty and disclose any relevant IPR, and hope that IPR held by nonparticipants in the process is not serious enough to cause us to regret our decision.
We don't have to limit ourselves to just hope (and in this case I think it would be a bad idea). There are processes in other non-IETF standards organizations to address patents held by nonpaticipants as well (for example, a W3C PAG).