[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“An attempt to persuade a key Internet standards body to abandon
its use of patented technologies has ended in defeat.“The intellectual property rights (IPR) working group of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) late Wednesday made official
what members had known for some time: There is no consensus within
the group to restrict the use of patented technologies in IETF
standards.“‘It’s clear that there is no consensus to recharter to change
the IETF’s IPR policy,’ Steve Bellovin, the working group’s
chairman and an AT&T network security researcher, wrote in an
e-mail to working group members. ‘In fact, there is likely
consensus the other way, that we should not recharter at this
time…’