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Re: Notation packet for PGP/MIME ability

2005-01-27 19:58:18


On 27 Jan 2005, at 12:50 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
The name field of the notation packet will be
"preferred-email-encoding(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com".

Do we need a trademark license from PGP if we want to implement this
proposal?

I certainly hope not. If you did, then the RFC 2440 mechanism of using a domain name as a namespace designator is fundamentally flawed and has to be redone. It would also mean that the Java namespace thing (essentially com.pgp.preferred-email-encoding) is also fraught with peril.

We're not going to require a trademark license for it. It would be improper for us to.

        Jon