[ssm] wg last call for draft-ietf-ssm-arch-03 complete

[Hugh Holbrook <holbrook@cisco.com>]

Hello, ssm working group. 

draft-ietf-ssm-arch-03.txt incorporated substantial comments from
Pekka, Brian and others.  We went through a second working group last
call on this document back in May, and received no comments on the
revised draft.  I believe that we have working group consensus that
the draft is ready to advance, on a technical basis.

As the -03 draft is near expiration, I am going to submit an -04
version to fix one grammatical typo and keep it alive in the archives.

The only unclosed discussion regarding this draft surrounds the
intellectual property rights statement posted to the IETF web site
back in March (reproduced below).  There was some brief discussion of
it on the mailing list back in April, but we didn't really close the
topic, and so I'd like to bring it up again.  So, with this IPR
statement in mind, let me now ask anyone who has opinions on the topic
of whether to advance draft-ietf-ssm-arch-04.txt to Proposed Standard
to speak up.

I found the following document to be a helpful reference when thinking
about intellectual property issues:

        draft-ietf-ipr-wg-guidelines-05.txt

Thanks,
-Hugh and Supratik

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The following is quoted from http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/APPLE-SSM.txt


Received March 10, 2003
From: "Edward W. Scott" <edscott@apple.com>

Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple") believes that its U.S. Patent Number
5,517,494 may be necessary for an implementation of the protocol
draft-ietf-ssm-arch-02.txt entitled "Source Specific Multicast for
IP." If this protocol is approved as an IETF Standard, licenses will
be available to any party on reasonable, nondiscriminatory terms, on
condition of reciprocity and defensive use, for a compliant
implementation of the protocol.

Any questions regarding this communication should be directed to:

Director of Patents
Apple Computer, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop, MS 3-PAT
Cupertino, CA  95014-2084
Voice: (408) 974-9453
Fax:  (408) 974-5436
E-mail:  iplaw@apple.com

Sincerely,




Edward W. Scott, IV
Senior Patent Counsel

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