Re: [TLS] Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-extractor (Keying Material Exporters for Transport Layer Security (TLS)) to Proposed Standard

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org>]

Dean Anderson wrote:
> I think you misunderstand how patents work or what the license says.
> 
> The licence is available for the case "when used with either ...". It is
> not the case that a patent only applies to specific RFCs.  RFC's aren't
> mentioned in patents. Patent claims covering tls-extractor very likely*
> apply to any use of extractor, not just those uses that also use other
> Certicom technology in other RFCs.  I think you are assuming that
> because Certicom offers a license for a certain situation (or maybe 'use
> configuration' is a better phrase), that different use configurations
> then won't need a license, but that isn't usually* the case. Those other
> 'use configurations' that infringe a claim still require a license.

After this clarification I would object draft-ietf-tls-extractor to be
published as proposed standard.


regards,
Nikos