{"draft":"draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-13","doc_id":"RFC8179","title":"Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology","authors":["S. Bradner","J. Contreras"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"26","pub_status":"BEST CURRENT PRACTICE","status":"BEST CURRENT PRACTICE","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"The IETF policies about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), such as\r\npatent rights, relative to technologies developed in the IETF are\r\ndesigned to ensure that IETF working groups and participants have as\r\nmuch information as possible about any IPR constraints on a technical\r\nproposal as early as possible in the development process.  The\r\npolicies are intended to benefit the Internet community and the\r\npublic at large, while respecting the legitimate rights of IPR\r\nholders.  This document sets out the IETF policies concerning IPR\r\nrelated to technology worked on within the IETF.  It also\r\ndescribes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet.\r\nThis document updates RFC 2026 and, with RFC 5378, replaces Section 10\r\nof RFC 2026.  This document also obsoletes RFCs 3979 and 4879.","pub_date":"May 2017","keywords":["IPR","copyright"],"obsoletes":["RFC3979","RFC4879"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2026"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":["BCP0079"],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8179","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8179"}