please reject attempt to standardize proprietary TLS authorization protocol

From: Alison Chaiken <alchaiken at gmail.com>
To: ietf at ietf.org
Cc: campaigns at fsf.org
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:36:51 -0800

If successful, RedPhone Security's bid to standardize their
proprietary TLS authorization proposal would unleash a tidal wave of
litigation.    One need only look at the difficulties caused by
Rambus' promulgation of a proprietary memory standard to see what ugly
and wasteful consequences an analogous decision created.     Please
reject RedPhone Security's proposal in the name of preventing needless
litigation.     We all want engineers to get rich, not lawyers.

-- 
Alison Chaiken
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