Re: On not using (r) and (tm)

["John R Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>]

> But we also have a policy against putting any IPR claims in
> RFCs; thus, the notice you suggest is against the rules.
>
> Should it be?  That's what we're here to decide.  People want to assert
> certain trademark rights; we need to define how that should be done.

Plan A: other people's trademarks aren't our problem, assertion or not
in IETF docs doesn't materially affect trademark rights, so forget it.

Plan B (only if Plan A makes significant numbers of employers forbid
employees to write IETF docs): permit sentences of the form "FOO is a
registered trademark of Foocorp" or "FOO is claimed as a trademark by
Foocorp" in with the boilerplate.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

PS: IETF Secretariat is a registered trademark of CNRI.

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