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patent threat for draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07

2009-02-10 20:27:18
draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07 is currently undergoing a ballot to become a
proposed standard, with the last call expiring on February 11.  Unfortunately,
this standard is encumbered by a patent owned by RedPhone Security.  While
RedPhone has given a license to implementors of this protocol, they have
not done so for users, so anyone using this standard may face a patent suit.

The IETF should refrain from making this draft a proposed standard until the
patent threat is entirely removed, that is, until RedPhone gives all users
a royalty-free license.

Rich Schultz
Network Architect
Tellme Networks
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