... we should prefer technology which will be available
royalty-free, but that's not current policy
Whose policy?
RFC-2026, section 4.1.2 ("Draft Standard"):
If patented or otherwise controlled technology is required for
implementation, the separate implementations must also have resulted
from separate exercise of the licensing process.
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