W/r/t Certicom's patents, I'm waiting to hear from a Simon
Blake-Wilson at Certicom. I don't know if he's a crypto guy, a
patent guy,or something else entirely. If someone knows him and has
an email address, I'll pester him directly.
At 3:34 PM -0700 9/4/01, Jon Callas wrote:
I have no idea how to do that, myself. But if someone else does the work
and convinces us that it's generic, I say go for it. That's also why I said
to do an informational RFC, make a sample implementation, let someone hack
up GPG to work with it, and we'll see.
Dominikus' draft has proposals for changes. Is the proposal
generic? Do the proposals conflict with 2440bis in any way? Are
there implementations (and do they interoperate)? These are the
issues, *if* we clear the IPR hurdle.
--
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
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