RFC 8179: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology

The IETF policies about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), such as patent rights, relative to technologies developed in the IETF are designed to ensure that…

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
Obsoletes — RFC 3979: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology
Obsoletes — RFC 4879: Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979
Normative reference — RFC 4844: The RFC Series and RFC Editor
Normative reference — RFC 2028: The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process
Normative reference — RFC 6410: Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels
Informative reference — RFC 5378: Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust
Informative reference — RFC 6701: Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy
Informative reference — RFC 6702: Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules
Informative reference — RFC 1790: An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 2339: An Agreement Between the Internet Society, the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 Protocols

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8554: Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8717: IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Consolidated Updates to IETF Administrative Terminology