ietf
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Third Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-10-18 14:41:20
On 2007-10-19 03:30, Simon Josefsson wrote:

...

To clarify that the part of the community that I'm a member of is not
interested in supporting this technology, we have decided to remove our
implementation.  See the announcement for GnuTLS in:

  ** TLS authorization support removed.
  This technique may be patented in the future, and it is not of crucial
  importance for the Internet community.  After deliberation we have
  concluded that the best thing we can do in this situation is to
  encourage society not to adopt this technique.  We have decided to
  lead the way with our own actions.
  <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/955>

I don't consider that a good argument for censoring the document.

We might consider publishing it as Informational, like other RFCs
that are published "for the record" . This means deciding between
guidelines 3 and 4 in http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/info-exp.html.

(BTW, should that be an ION?)

    Brian

_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf