[171672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Thu May 8 14:54:10 2014
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 20:54:02 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com> [2014-05-08 20:41]:
> I was the IESG member responsible for the VRRP working group when the
> OpenBSD developer (I'm sorry, Henning, I forget if it was you or someone
> else)
wasn't me, as stated repeatedly I wasn't the one talking to the
standard bodies.
> came to a VRRP WG meeting and demanded that the IETF handle the
> patent issue with VRRP. We described the IETF's IPR process and that the
> policy is explicitly not to do what was being requested, and the response
> was more or less "well, then we'll have to fix the problem for you". At
> later meetings I heard buzz about how the developers intended CARP to
> interfere with VRRP, with the philosophical position that VRRP wasn't a
> protocol.
I think we have told what happened in enough detail in the 3.5
commentary already posted to this thread.
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