Hi. This document [1] contains the following section: 6. Intellectual Property The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has submitted a patent application about the AugPAKE protocol, described in this document. For details of the patent application and its status, please contact the authors of this document. That by itself does not fulfill the IETF procedures regarding patent disclosure. Please read section 6.1 of RFC 3979: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3979#section-6.1 Searching for a patent disclosure on this document suggests that none has been filed (yet): https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&document_search=draft-shin-augmented-pake Therefor you need to file the proper patent disclosure for your submission to comply with the IETF rules. To make your technology benefit Internet applications everywhere, please consider licensing your patent in a liberal way. One example what I believe is a friendly patent license would be this one: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/941/ Writing a patent license in friendly way is complicated, if you are interested I can work with you and the Free Software Foundation or the Software Freedom Law Center to help you write a good license. Thanks, /Simon [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shin-augmented-pake-00.txt _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf