Dear Folks:
I sincerely hope that U will vote to reject this 'standard.' Any
widely-used protocol that is taxed by patent encumbrance leaves the
entire market at the mercy of the whims of the patent holder. When an
investment is made in a technology, a strong argument can be made for
breathing room for the implementer to be able to build a market (or
market share), but assessing a toll at the end of the standard
development process is parasitic. In the end, crippled standards like
this will lead to the fragmentation of the Internet.
Of course, this whole issue can be resolved by RedPhone Security; they
need only to offer a free license to all users of TLS-authz with the
right to freely sublicense. Needless to say, this would be a
public-relations coup for them, and I think they should be encouraged to
do so. In the meantime, this 'standard' should be rejected for the
piracy that it is.
Please, let's keep standards open!
Thx, Phil Long
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