{"draft":"draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-07","doc_id":"RFC6701","title":"Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy","authors":["A. Farrel","P. Resnick"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"12","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"The IETF has developed and documented policies that govern the\r\nbehavior of all IETF participants with respect to Intellectual\r\nProperty Rights (IPR) about which they might reasonably be aware.\r\n\r\nThe IETF takes conformance to these IPR policies very seriously.\r\nHowever, there has been some ambiguity as to what the appropriate\r\nsanctions are for the violation of these policies, and how and by\r\nwhom those sanctions are to be applied.\r\n\r\nThis document discusses these issues and provides a suite of\r\npotential actions that can be taken within the IETF community in\r\ncases related to patents.  This document is not an Internet Standards \r\nTrack specification; it is published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"August 2012","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6701","errata_url":null}