Re: [TLS] Proto write-up for TLS exporter

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org>]

At 12:34 AM +0300 5/14/09, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org> wrote:
>
>>> Conveniently, the
>>>restrictions you carefully chose made your statement true.  The patent
>>>threat and patent license is unclear _to me_ and _right now_.  That is
>>>sufficient for me to not support publishing the document at this point.
>>
>> That's not what you said.
>>
>> Further, it is still absurd and obstructionist to say that a document cannot be published on standards track as long as someone thinks it has one or more "unclear patent threat against it". Anyone can write an IPR statement that is unclear to someone.
>
>As far as I remember this was the consensus of this WG for the TLS-SRP
>now informational RFC. Once someone submitted an unclear patent thread
>against it, the WG decided not to move forward as a standards track,
>rather as informational.

On review of the archives, I disagree that the choice to go for Informational was because the patent status was unclear. It seemed that many people thought the status was clear and negative for standardization. This is, of course, subjective on my part.

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