IPR disclosures

This page provides a mechanism for filing disclosures about intellectual property rights (IPR) and for finding out what IPR disclosures have been filed. The IETF intellectual property rights rules are defined in RFC 8179, "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology".

The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in any IETF documents or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights.

The material posted as IPR disclosures should be viewed as originating from the source of that information, and any issue or question related to the material should be directed to the source rather than the IETF. There is no implied endorsement or agreement by the IETF, the IESG or any other IETF entities with any of the material.

• File a disclosure about your IPR related to a specific IETF contribution
• File an IPR disclosure that is not related to a specific IETF contribution
• Notify the IETF of IPR other than your own
• To update an existing IPR disclosure, find the original disclosure and select "update this IPR disclosure".
• Search the IPR disclosures
• List of IPR disclosures

To remove an IPR disclosure from the list, please contact the IETF Secretariat at ietf-ipr@ietf.org.

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