On 04/23/2012 10:36 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: > The ACWG working group is considering proposals for a > higher-bandwidth alternative to RFC 1149. One proposal is to attach > flash chips to the birds' legs. This proposal gets accepted, and > eventually makes it to RFC. Company A implements this new standard, > and then gets sued by Company B, because they have a patent for > attaching flash chips to bird legs. When asked why they're only > mentioning it now, they claim they had never followed the ACWG. The > blue sheets can prove that Bob from Company B was actually at the > meeting.
That's assuming Bob signed the blue shit in the first place (which need not be the case). Even then, Company A would need to prove that whoever signed the blue sheet as Bob was really Bob. Also, * Do companies skim through the attendee list double-checking that people claiming to be affiliated with Company B, really work for company B, and complain to the meeting organizers if that's not the case? * Does signing the blue sheet really mean that you're paying attention to whatever is being discussed? (rather than, e.g. doing e-mail) * What about the case in which the same person must be in two meetings that overlap? (e.g., I've *presented* at overlapping meeting) What should they do in that that case? Sign all the corresponding blue sheets? Sign none? Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1
