Re: IETF Patent Licenses are RAND

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> Until my eyes grew dim, I reviewed the long collection of patent
> licenses on http://www.ietf.org/ipr.  All I saw were RAND or worse.
> While some IETF members may have a preference for RF patent licensing,
> clearly that standards organization isn't getting any RF patent 
> licenses
> worthy of the name.
I suspect this is a skewed sample; most of the technology that is 
available via RF licenses probably isn't posted there because the 
existence of an RF license meant that no WG needed to devote time to 
negotiating a RAND license.

Of course it would be better if all of the licenses were documented on 
the IETF web page.

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