"Undergoing a ballot"? Is it possible these people believe that they're stuffing a ballot box? Shows they do not understand what an IETF last call is about. On 2/9/09, Rich Schultz <rich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07 is currently undergoing a ballot to become a > proposed standard, with the last call expiring on February 11. Unfortunately, > this standard is encumbered by a patent owned by RedPhone Security. While > RedPhone has given a license to implementors of this protocol, they have > not done so for users, so anyone using this standard may face a patent suit. > > The IETF should refrain from making this draft a proposed standard until the > patent threat is entirely removed, that is, until RedPhone gives all users > a royalty-free license. > > > Rich Schultz > Network Architect > Tellme Networks > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin Principal Engineer Corporate Standardization (US) SISA _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf