On June 27, 2006, the IESG approved "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions," (draft-housley-tls-authz-extns) as a proposed standard. On November 29, 2006, Redphone Security (with whom Mark Brown, a co-author of the draft is affiliated) filed IETF IPR disclosure 767. The disclosure can be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=767 . The disclosure may cover technology in draft-housley-tls-authz-extns and other drafts. The claimed IPR relates to a US patent application filed September 23, 2005. The claims of this application are now public so IETF participants may examine the claims. According to section 3.2.1 of RFC 3979, "The Contributor represents that he or she has made or will promptly make all disclosures required by Section 6.1.1 of this document." Section 6.1.1 requires: Any Contributor who reasonably and personally knows of IPR meeting the conditions of Section 6.6 which the Contributor believes Covers or may ultimately Cover his or her Contribution, or which the Contributor reasonably and personally knows his or her employer or sponsor may assert against Implementing Technologies based on such Contribution, must make a disclosure in accordance with this Section 6. The IESG has been informed by Mark Brown that he had knowledge of the September 2005 patent application filed by his employer at the time he submitted draft-housley-tls-authz-extns. Accordingly, he was obligated to disclose the existence of this patent application upon making this submission. Making a required IPR disclosure after a draft is approved does not meet the requirement to promptly make the disclosure. According to section 7 of RFC 3979 failure to make a required disclosure is a failure of process. It should be noted that the above disclosure obligations apply to unpublished patent applications. When a patent application that is required to be disclosed is unpublished, the discloser must 'indicate that the claim is based on unpublished patent applications', but is not required to list the application number (see RFC 3978 Section 6.4.1). the IESG withdraws its approval of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns. The RFC editor is hereby requested to remove this draft from their publication queue. IANA is hereby requested to remove the assignments for this draft and mark the codepoints as reserved. Should this draft be approved in the future, IANA is requested to re-assign the same codepoints. 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. Comments can be sent to ietf@ietf.org or exceptionally to iesg@ietf.org. Comments should be sent by 2007-03-13. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
