Re: [TLS] Straw poll on TLS SRP status

[Martin Rex <Martin.Rex at sap.com>]

[X] I think Informational/Experimental is better.

Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
> My preference is "IPR-affected" all go into the 
> "Informational/Experimental" bucket. My main reasons for that are:
> 
> - It will stop this repetitive discussion
> 
> - The "lower" status of Informational or Experimental is irrelevant 
> to users but seems relevant to some developers

The document status is pretty much the only "incentive" that the
IETF can put out for companies to slow down on their patents race
or at least to come up with reasonable licensing terms (i.e. royalty free
for Free and OpenSource software).

Even Lucent could come up with an IPR statement describing under
what terms they will be licensing their patent(s) should they
ever come to the conclusion that their any of their patent(s) apply,
and that they have not made any such determination so far.

-Martin

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