At 4:11 PM -0700 9/17/97, Steve Dusse wrote:
I have just been informed by our legal department that RSA Data Security,
Inc. does not own a trademark on the name "S/MIME". Any representations to
that effect in the past were in error and will be updated.
I think I can update this in the next draft. It's called "removing the
text". :-)
This is very good (and a tad shocking) news, Steve. For those of you
following the discussion on us forming a Working Group, this should
defintely make it easier since the now-nonexistant trademark was a big
point of contention.
--Paul E. Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium