Subject: Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this?

From: Bernard Aboba <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:04:01 -0700 (PDT)

Paul Vixie said:

"in <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/802_11n_patent_threat/>, we 
see:

		Letters of Assurance are requested from all parties
		holding patents which may be applicable to any IEEE
		standard. Basically they state that the patent owner
		won't sue anyone for implementing the standard.  ...

i was thinking, what a great policy.  why doesn't IETF have one like it?"

Actually, this is a mistatement of what is in an IEEE letter of 
assurance.  Check out the text here; it looks quite similar to an IETF IPR 
declaration form (e.g. no promise not to litigate):
http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf

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