Patent Licenses for Code in RFCs?

> > The licenses under 3.3.a (other than 3.3.a.E, see
below)
> > do NOT grant any rights to implement IETF
standards
> > in products.  IETF Contributors are NOT required
to grant patent
> > licenses to implementers.  This has always been
IETF's policy, and
> > there is no ambiguity here.
> 
> And that is why this is, and always has been, a policy
issue. 

Larry is right.  This is a "policy" question for
the group.  I can
tell you what the current rules say, and can help write
new rules if there is consensus to change them (and if the
chairs ask
me to).

So far, Larry and Simon have voiced a desire to
change IETF policy so as to grant implementers a patent 
license to use code that's embedded in RFCs
(oversimplifying,
of course).

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