On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:53, IESG Secretary wrote:
The IESG is considering re-approving this draft with knowledge of the
IPR disclosure from Redphone Security. The IESG solicits final
comments on whether the IETF community has consensus to publish
draft-housley-tls-authz-extns as a proposed standard given the IPR
claimed.
I believe that approval of draft-houselye-tls-authz-extns would be the wrong
decision, for the following reasons:
1. It would send the wrong message to other companies to both Redphone
Security and other companies who would seek to engage in similar practice.
This is not to suggest that any particular company did or would seek to do
so, just that the IETF should seek to deter this behaviour.
2. The authorisation extensions have recently been implemented by a free
software library, and problems were found in a couple of area.
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg01518.html
Approval of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns given current knowledge would be a
poor decision both politically and technically.
Brad
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