Request about: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1026/

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To whom it may concern,

This is about:
"Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions"
(draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07)

Patent information: 11/234,404 ; 60/646,749 ; PCT/US2006/001342

Which can be found by reading the document: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1026/ The section where RedPhone Security asserts that the protocol would hold nothing that infringes the patent, they then say that there are four ways to do business with this protocol, and implementing these methods would infringe what they call their IPR.

Then they go on to state:

"RedPhone Security agrees to grant licenses for such uses in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner. This statement applies to the Disclosed Patent Information, including all amendments in all nations as published during the course of prosecution."

This statement says "you now need licences to make the internet work".

This is an attempt to put a toll booth on an onramp to the internet, even if this toll booth is cashless it would be unforgivable to allow such a construction. Precedence as we all know is a bad thing, and this would be a really bad case of it the start of the closing of the highway that is the internet.

Therefore I strongly recommend that this draft be dropped until such time as RedPhone Agrees to allow a complete and free use of any works they feel they can lay claim to in the implementation of this protocol where the methods of authentication against violate their IPR.

The only offer that would be acceptable would be for RedPhone security to grant all parties involved a full and free use of any of their IP that is associated with this protocol.

If you wish to run a sanity test why not ask "What would Jon Postel have said in this case?".


Regards,

Paul O'Malley
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