Re: [TLS] Document Action: 'TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with

[Martin Rex <Martin.Rex@xxxxxxx>]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
> 
>     It's worse than that. There's no "IETF police" to come after  
>     violators, or enforce section 7 of 3979. If some individual fails to  
>     disclose, she will not be barred from participating in IETF  
>     discussions, or from posting new drafts.  If a company fails to  
>     disclose, definitely no action will be taken against its employees.   
> 
> If this is true, does it indicate that the IETF needs to take a stronger
> stand in enforcing its own rules?

Keep in mind that there is no formal membership in the IETF,
and every participant participates as an individual.  Most of the time
there are employers/companies sponsoring the IETF working group or
meeting participation, but that does not automatically make participants
representatives for their sponsors (or affiliates).

There is no obligation that engineers participating the IETF know all
or any of the patents of their sponsors/affiliates.

The patents one ought to disclose (when touched) are those that one
already holds or one (or one's team) is working on, i.e. the obvious
submarine patents.

-Martin
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