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On this page you will find the interim IPR policy for the ASRG and a list of IPR disclosures made by ASRG members. Also see "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Anti-Spam Technology" page for more information regarding IPR. To submit IPR disclosures, or if you want to speak regarding any other IPR issues, please contact the ASRG chairs.

Please note that most of ASRG work is expected to end up at the IETF and thus will be subject to their IPR policy.

Since the IRTF does not have an official IPR policy, we have adopted an interim policy based on section 10 of RFC 2026 until the IRTF adopts an official policy. Our policy boils down to the fact that anyone submitting a proposal to the ASRG is responsible for stating any relevant IPR that he knows about even if he is not the holder of the rights. This does allow for other members to notify a contributor about relevant IPR after the initial submission. The contributor should then disclose this information in revisions of the contribution. The official text of the policy is as follows:

By submission of a contribution, each person actually submitting the contribution is deemed to agree to the following terms and conditions on his own behalf, on behalf of the organization (if any) he represents and on behalf of the owners of any propriety rights in the contribution.. Where a submission identifies contributors in addition to the contributor(s) who provide the actual submission, the actual submitter(s) represent that each other named contributor was made aware of and agreed to accept the same terms and conditions on his own behalf, on behalf of any organization he may represent and any known owner of any proprietary rights in the contribution.

The contributor represents that he has disclosed the existence of any proprietary or intellectual property rights in the contribution that are reasonably and personally known to the contributor. The contributor does not represent that he personally knows of all potentially pertinent proprietary and intellectual property rights owned or claimed by the organization he represents (if any) or third parties.

1. MailBlocks, Inc. (see section 2.1.1 of IPR rights document) on June 12^th, 2003, in a private phone call:

(X) Licensing Declaration to be Provided Later (implies a willingness to license in some form to all implementers; otherwise, "Unwilling to License to All Implementers" must be selected)

1.1. Additional disclosure regarding CRI protocol:

https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg06437.html

2. TitanKey (see section 4.2 of IPR rights document), on June 13^th, 2003, in a private email:

(X) Licensing Declaration to be Provided Later (implies a willingness to license in some form to all implementers; otherwise, "Unwilling to License to All Implementers" must be selected)