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Re: A priori IPR choices

2007-10-23 05:56:00
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:42:06 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
"Frank Ellermann" <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> writes:

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto>.

I noticed that the 00 draft would expire in two days, and submitted
a 01 with only minor changes.

I like this document a lot; kudo's to Simon for writing it!

My personal opinion is that suggestions for how to write a free
standard published as an informational RFC is much more useful than
trying to get consensus around some edict that the IETF _only_ publish
free standards.  

I agree.  There are a number of problems with the current draft (i.e.,
the reference to RSA patents -- those expired years ago), but none that
I think would block progress of the document.  This is definitely worth
pursuing.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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