+1
If the bar for allowing technology to move forward in the IETF is that
it must not only be unencumbered itself, but _any_ use of it must also
be unencumbered, then we may as well all go home, after rescinding TCP,
IP, HTTP, and anything else we have done in the past - these are all
used to do some things that are themselves encumbered. Welcome to the
real world.
If the technology in the document to be standardized is unencumbered,
then the fact that _some_ uses of that technology may run into
encumbered territory is irrelevant, except to those who hate patents in
general.
Regards,
Chuck
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Chuck Powers,
Motorola, Inc
phone: 512-427-7261
mobile: 512-576-0008
-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:51 PM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to
Proposed Standard
FWIW (and it would be good if other actual
IETF participants care to indicate +1 if they agree):
The actual words in RedPhone's current disclosure:
"RedPhone Security hereby asserts that the techniques for
sending and receiving authorizations defined in TLS Authorizations
Extensions (version draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt) do not
infringe upon RedPhone Security's intellectual property
rights (IPR)..."
Now, there's been some discussion of whether some use cases for
the protocol will nevertheless lead implementors to infringe, but
that (plus the question of whether the offered license conditions
in that case are in fact acceptable) is frankly irrelevant. The
draft on the table is in itself unencumbered by RedPhone Security,
and that's all that matters as far as the IETF's IPR rules go.
There may be other reasons not to advance this document; not being
a security person, I have no opinion about that. But as far as this
particular IPR issue is concerned, IMHO it's good to go.
Brian
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