Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> Tue, 10 February 2009 06:42 UTC
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From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
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Subject: Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:42:54 -0500
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Dear Brian; On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > FWIW (and it would be good if other actual > IETF participants care to indicate +1 if they agree): > FWIW I read the IPR statement and couldn't figure out what the recent posters were talking about either. Hunting around, I come across this <http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/FSF-call-for-opposition-to-TLS-Authorisation-standard--/112596 > which lead to this http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard news → Send comments opposing TLS-authz standard by February 11 <snip> That patent in question is claimed by RedPhone Security. RedPhone has given a license to anyone who implements the protocol, but they still threaten to sue anyone that uses it. <snip> ------ I don't see any sensible way you get from the statement below to the statement above. Regards Marshall > The actual words in RedPhone's current disclosure: > > "RedPhone Security hereby asserts that the techniques for > sending and receiving authorizations defined in TLS Authorizations > Extensions (version draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt) do not > infringe upon RedPhone Security's intellectual property rights > (IPR)..." > > Now, there's been some discussion of whether some use cases for > the protocol will nevertheless lead implementors to infringe, but > that (plus the question of whether the offered license conditions > in that case are in fact acceptable) is frankly irrelevant. The > draft on the table is in itself unencumbered by RedPhone Security, > and that's all that matters as far as the IETF's IPR rules go. > > There may be other reasons not to advance this document; not being > a security person, I have no opinion about that. But as far as this > particular IPR issue is concerned, IMHO it's good to go. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
- Evaluation: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt … Dimitrios P. Bouras
- FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Pro… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Tim Bray
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Marshall Eubanks
- RE: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Powers Chuck-RXCP20
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Simon Josefsson
- RE: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Pasi.Eronen
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Thierry Moreau
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Simon Josefsson
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Thierry Moreau
- Re: ideological opposition to patents Ofer Inbar
- Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: FWIW: guessing about draft-housley-tls-authz-… John Levine
- RE: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to… Pasi.Eronen