Wasting time (Re: draft-ietf-ipr-trademarks-00.txt)

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

--On lørdag, februar 05, 2005 22:12:46 +0100 Simon Josefsson 
<jas at extundo.com> wrote:

> > Of course, we could easily waste more than 200 IETF participant working
> > hours discussing the requirement.....
>
> I am sorry you view it as wasting time.

Simon,

in one sense, I regard *every* message on the IPR list as a waste of time, 
and *every* engineering minute spent in IPR discussions as the same.

They contribute *zero* to getting better engineering specifications that we 
can use in building a better Internet.

The only excuse I can find for spending any time at all developing 
procedures for handling of IPR is that not having such procedures makes us 
waste more time in the same sort of issues on a case-by-case basis - or let 
us be trapped in situations where we *cannot* do what's best for the 
Internet.

I regard our job in the IPR WG as *minimizing* the total amount of time we 
have to spend on the "overhead" of dealing with IPR.

But that doesn't mean I have to call the time spent "productive".

                   Harald


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