RE: Last Call: 'Guidance for AAA Key Management' to BCP (draft-housley-aaa-key-mgmt)

["Alper Yegin" <alper.yegin at yegin.org>]

I think this is a good and much-needed document. Thanks to the authors and
whoever else contributed to it.

The title and the abstract starts reading like a general AAA key management
guideline, but later the document gets too EAP-specific. Is the intent to
provide general guidelines that should also be followed by non-EAP-based
systems? Can we clarify that?


      4-Way Handshake
         A pairwise Authentication and Key Management Protocol (AKMP)
         defined in [802.11i], which confirms mutual possession of a
         Pairwise Master Key by two parties anon  a copyright statement alone to cover the IETF's use,
that is IMHO broken. The IETF's reliance on "That there must be two
physically interoperable ports of any protocol" implemented to meet the
Standards Practice takes this out of the Copyright alone Area and creates
that Industrial Design that has to be protected.

My point to the Aesthetic Patent was that it was a tad easier to deal with
IMHO.


Todd Glassey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s at rad.com>
To: <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: WIPO issues (was: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea))



To qualify for protection, an industrial design must be aesthetic,
and I believe that elegant design should be one of our goals in protocol
design.

However, industrial designs are "divorced from all technical aspects of
the article",
and thus at least some small portion of our ongoing work may be
ineligible for protection.

A major obstacle to be overcome before applying for design protection
for our work
is the fact that ASCII RFCs can not contain lines or colors,
and would probably be rejected by the appropriate national offices.

Finally, please note the treaties:
   Terribly Complex Protection for Intellectual Property (TCP/IP)
   Ugly Dumb Protection for Intellectual Property (UDP/IP)
may directly impact our work.

Y(J)S





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