On Friday 26 October 2007 15:32, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 2007-10-27 07:04, Randy Presuhn wrote: > > Hi - > > > > The existence of IPR claims potentially relevant to the implementation > > of a specification has never been sufficient grounds to block the > > publication of that specification as an RFC. Given the unfortunate > > history of this work, publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns > > as experimental seems to be the most sensible path out of this mess. > > I agree. The DOS attack on this list seems to be from people > who haven't read RFC 2026 and use meaningless phrases like > "experimental standard." In fact, publishing this as an experiment > to see if it gets implemented and deployed despite the IPR issue > seems like *exactly* the right thing to do. Just make sure you aren't running an experiment on the results of ignoring the IETF rules not having signficant consuequences. Scott K _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf