On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:38:16 +0100 Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Joel M. Halpern" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Simon, you are mixing several issues in your note, including > > strictly legal issues and personal preferences. > > I bring up only one issue here: Can implementers extract and use the > ASN.1 module for their implementations legally? > > > Firstly, it is clear that you (and every other implementor using > > this document) needs the ability to extract and use the ASN.1 > > include in the document. That is already provided for in BCP 78. > > The text he included is exactly the text that BCP 78 tells him to > > include to do that. So there is no problem there. > > I explained in my note that BCP 78 does _not_ provide for that. If > you disagree with that, I think you need to show where BCP 78 gives > third parties the right to extract and use the ASN.1 module. > And as you very well know, the IPR working group is fixing the problem. I think a pointer to the archives there would have sufficed (or at least a mention of the discussion and status). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf