3) I have read the IPR and I believe I could deploy this specification. NOTE: I am not a legal expert, but I do have extensive experience with identity related patents and after reviewing the claims, I do not believe that the OAuth 2.0 or OAuth bearer specifications infringe on patent 7272639.
-- Dick On May 9, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > So, here are statements that you could make as part of this discussion > that would be entirely in scope: > > 1) I've read the IPR. Prior to this disclosure I was interested in > developing|deploying|shipping an implementation of this > specification. Now I am not. > > 2) I think you could go so far as to say. Based on this IPR I would no > longer feel comfortable making an open-source implementation of this > spec available. > > 3) Or on the other side: I've reviewed this new IPR and I believe I > could implement|ship|deploy|whatever this specification. > > Or if you don't like giving out as much information as 1-3: > > 4) I've reviewed the new IPr and I recommend that we not advance this > standard > > 5) I've reviewed the IPR and I do recommend we advance. > > Obviously, people may weigh statements of the form 1-3 with more value > than 4-5. However it's really hard to get many organizations to say > something in the 1-3 range. > > Other valid things to say in such a context include: > > 6) We've successfully obtained any licenses we believe that we need in > order to implement this specification given the IPR. > > 7) We attempted to obtain the licenses we needed in order to implement > given this IPR but were unsuccessful. > > believe all the above statements are acceptable. In particular, none of > them comment on the validity of the IPR nor give legal advice about > stuff. > > I believe you could even go so far as to say something like I believe > that an open-source implementation of this technology is|is not > important to whether we should standardize it. I believe we've come very > close to that in the past. > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
