Re: draft-ietf-ipr-trademarks-00.txt

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

--On 5. februar 2005 01:07 +0100 Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com> wrote:

> I'm not contending that.  I have suggested that if trademark
> identifiers are passed through, there should be an IPR statement on
> the use of that trademark.
>
> Doing so would be simple for the IETF, and would go a long way to
> improve the situation for me, and presumably other free software
> implementors.

My personal estimate is that it takes 15 min of processing time at the 
secretariat to deal with an IPR statement. (the example numbers I heard 
were 2 minutes for an IPR statement coming in by Webform and 20 mins for 
one coming in by email - YMMV).

I also guesstimate that it takes a trademark owner about one hour to get 
the information together to file an IPR notice. This is probably VERY low 
for the first notice he has to generate, but the time should fall sharply 
once the trademark owner learns the rules.

If we have 200 trademarks mentioned in RFCs per year, each requiring one 
IPR filing, we have imposed a burden on the secretariat of 50 working 
hours, and a burden on IETF participants of 200 working hours.

If we pick a random number of 100 dollars per working hour, fully loaded, 
the financial burden of your "simple" requirement is 5000 dollars - or the 
total secretariat contribution of approx. 25 IETF attendees.

Of course, we could easily waste more than 200 IETF participant working 
hours discussing the requirement.....

                       Harald






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