Hi Aaron,
Can you clarify? Do you mean "IP of DDS", or IP of something else? Are DDS algos patented? There used to be talk of zero-mq-based ROS, but that seems to have disappeared from the table.
My knee-jerk reaction is to be a bit suspicious of OMG-created technologies; they sound great at first, but are often over-wrought (e.g. corba). I'd never even heard a whisper about DDS before yesterday; I'm nervous about adopting a technology that has not yet gained any acceptance at all in the open-source community. So, for example, whatever one's opinion of zmq might be, positive or negative, its a "known thing"; many people have used it, there is developer experience, a track record. There's no such track record for DDS -- the proprietary world seems to be the primary consumer of the thing, and their experience with it is secret, and not shared. We don't actually know how well it works (although I admit it sounds really great, based on the wikipedia article).
Anyway: please clarify: IP of what? And who "owns" that IP, who has rights to it?
-- Linas.