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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

These pages provide a mechanism for filing Disclosures about
intellectual property rights (IPR) and for finding out what IPR
Disclosures have been filed. The IETF intellectual property rights
rules are defined in RFC 3979, "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF
Technology" (updated by RFC4879, "Clarification of the Third Party
Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979"). The procedures for how the IETF
handles subpoenas can be found at http://iaoc.ietf.org/subpoenas.html.

The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
intellectual property rights or other rights that might be claimed to
pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
any IETF documents or the extent to which any license under such
rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it
has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. The
material posted as IPR disclosures should be viewed as originating
from the source of that information, and any issue or question related
to the material should be directed to the source rather than the
IETF. There is no implied endorsement or agreement by the IETF, the
IESG or any other IETF entities with any of the material.

o  File a disclosure about your IPR related to a specific IETF contribution
o  File an IPR disclosure that is not related to a specific IETF contribution
o  Notify the IETF of IPR other than your own
o  Update an existing IPR disclosure
o  Search the IPR disclosures
o  List of IPR disclosures
o  IPR-Announce mailing list

IETF Contribution: any submission to the IETF intended by the
Contributor for publication as all or part of an Internet-Draft or RFC
(except for RFC Editor Contributions described below) and any
statement made within the context of an IETF activity. Such statements
include oral statements in IETF sessions, as well as written and
electronic communications made at any time or place, which are
addressed to:

o  the IETF plenary session,
o  any IETF working group or portion thereof,
o  the IESG, or any member thereof on behalf or the IESG,
o  the IAB or any member thereof on behalf of the IAB,
o  any IETF mailing list, including the IETF list itself, any working group or design team list, or any other list functioning under IETF auspices,
o  the RFC Editor or the Internet-Drafts function (except for RFC Editor Contributions described below).

Statements made outside of an IETF session, mailing list or other
function, that are clearly not intended to be input to an IETF
activity, group or function, are not IETF Contributions in the context
of this document.

A participant in any IETF activity is deemed to accept all IETF rules
of process, as documented in Best Current Practices RFCs and IESG
Statements.

A participant in any IETF activity acknowledges that written, audio
and video records of meetings may be made and may be available to the
public.

RFC Editor Contribution: An Internet-Draft intended by the Contributor
to be submitted to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational
or Experimental RFC but not intended to be part of the IETF Standards
Process.


FILE AN IPR DISCLOSURE PAGE
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(https://www.ietf.org/ipr/file-disclosure.html)

File an IPR Disclosure

o  File a disclosure about your IPR related to a specific IETF contribution
o  File an IPR disclosure that is not related to a specific IETF contribution
o  Notify the IETF of IPR other than your own
o  Update an existing IPR disclosure

The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
intellectual property rights or other rights that might be claimed to
pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
any IETF documents or the extent to which any license under such
rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it
has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. The
material posted as IPR disclosures should be viewed as originating
from the source of that information, and any issue or question related
to the material should be directed to the source rather than the
IETF. There is no implied endorsement or agreement by the IETF, the
IESG or any other IETF entities with any of the material.


SEARCH PAGE
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The material posted as IPR disclosures should be viewed as originating
from the source of that information, and any issue or question related
to the material should be directed to the source rather than the
IETF. There is no implied endorsement or agreement by the IETF, the
IESG or any other IETF entities with any of the material.

POLICY PAGE
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(https://www.ietf.org/ipr/policy.html)

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

The IETF intellectual property rights rules are defined in RFC 3979,
"Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology" (updated by RFC
4879, "Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC
3979").

The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
intellectual property rights or other rights that might be claimed to
pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
any IETF documents or the extent to which any license under such
rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it
has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. The
material posted as IPR disclosures should be viewed as originating
from the source of that information, and any issue or question related
to the material should be directed to the source rather than the
IETF. There is no implied endorsement or agreement by the IETF, the
IESG or any other IETF entities with any of the material.

IETF Contribution: any submission to the IETF intended by the
Contributor for publication as all or part of an Internet-Draft or RFC
(except for RFC Editor Contributions described below) and any
statement made within the context of an IETF activity. Such statements
include oral statements in IETF sessions, as well as written and
electronic communications made at any time or place, which are
addressed to:

o  the IETF plenary session,
o  any IETF working group or portion thereof,
o  the IESG, or any member thereof on behalf or the IESG,
o  the IAB or any member thereof on behalf of the IAB,
o  any IETF mailing list, including the IETF list itself, any working group or design team list, or any other list functioning under IETF auspices,
o  the RFC Editor or the Internet-Drafts function (except for RFC Editor Contributions described below).

Statements made outside of an IETF session, mailing list or other
function, that are clearly not intended to be input to an IETF
activity, group or function, are not IETF Contributions in the context
of this document.

A participant in any IETF activity is deemed to accept all IETF rules
of process, as documented in Best Current Practices RFCs and IESG
Statements.

A participant in any IETF activity acknowledges that written, audio
and video records of meetings may be made and may be available to the
public.

RFC Editor Contribution: An Internet-Draft intended by the Contributor
to be submitted to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational
or Experimental RFC but not intended to be part of the IETF Standards
Process.