If successful, RedPhone Security's bid to standardize their proprietary TLS authorization proposal would unleash a tidal wave of litigation. One need only look at the difficulties caused by Rambus' promulgation of a proprietary memory standard to see what ugly and wasteful consequences an analogous decision created. Please reject RedPhone Security's proposal in the name of preventing needless litigation. We all want engineers to get rich, not lawyers. -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600 (cell) http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ The Human Genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. -- Steve Jurvetson _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf