On 2007-10-19 03:30, Simon Josefsson wrote: ...
To clarify that the part of the community that I'm a member of is not interested in supporting this technology, we have decided to remove our implementation. See the announcement for GnuTLS in: ** TLS authorization support removed. This technique may be patented in the future, and it is not of crucial importance for the Internet community. After deliberation we have concluded that the best thing we can do in this situation is to encourage society not to adopt this technique. We have decided to lead the way with our own actions. <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/955>
I don't consider that a good argument for censoring the document. We might consider publishing it as Informational, like other RFCs that are published "for the record" . This means deciding between guidelines 3 and 4 in http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/info-exp.html. (BTW, should that be an ION?) Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf