jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) writes: > I concur [with ignoring requests to reject > 'draft-housley-tls-authz-extns' on grounds of patent encumbrance] - > and I think this is the action we should take, no matter how many > emails we see from people we've never heard from before (and > probably never will again). These people you speak of are users of the internet, and in many cases software developers, expressing specific concern over a process they see as harmful to the foundation of the internet: namely, validation of a patent-encumbered technology by progressing it through a standards process. In the past it has been expressed on this list that the only qualification for getting involved in IETF policy is exactly that, getting involved -- in particular, on this list. Are you saying that people who take the time to post in this forum will be ignored merely because what they say is not what you want to hear? -- \ "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence | `\ of fear. -- Mark Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf