Subject: [saag] FW: [T17ALL] ETRI's X.websec-5 patent rights claim

From: Scott Mansfield <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:45:17 +0000

Is the IETF working on any security aspects of web mashup services?  If so, this might be of interest.

Regards,
-scott.

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From: Tony Rutkowski [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:26 AM
To: Euchner, Martin; sg17all
Subject: [T17ALL] ETRI's X.websec-5 patent rights claim

Hi Martin,

It appears that ETRI has just filed a notice of patent rights claimed against X.websec-5 just adopted at the last meeting as Draft Supplement 21 to ITU-T X-series Recommendations - ITU-T X.1143 – Supplement on Security framework for web mashup services.
See attached.

How is it possible that for work ongoing for three years, that a notice has only now been filed following adoption of the work by ITU-T at last month's meeting?  This seems like rather outrageous conduct when the representative of the patent claimant is also author of the Supplement and the Rapporteur of the group involved.

Perhaps even more mystifying are the licensing control options asserted on the basis of "reciprocity."
The adopted X.websec text is nothing more than an abstruse collection of material apparently scraped from openly available reference material.  This is not the subject of patent protection (or any other form of IPR protection).  It would be most interesting to see a detailed description of the patent rights claimed.

--tony

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