Re: [Patents] TODAY/URGENT: Stop IETF Enactment of Patented Standard for TLS

[Benjamin Henrion <bh@udev.org>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Enrico Marocco
<enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it> wrote:
> Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>>>> (Urgent.  Send your note TODAY and CONFIRM the automatic reply from
>>>> IETF.  You can cc campaigns@fsf.org .  Three links below, FSF's action
>>>> page, Glyn Moody's blog, and the list announcement for TLS-AUTHZ at
>>>> IETF.  -- Seth)
>>> Really, the IETF is a very open community, mail flooding the main
>>> mailing list may be quite counterproductive; why non just subscribing
>>> and contributing to the discussion? That would actually help who is
>>> seriously defending your position:
>>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg55526.html
>>
>> IETF has a policy accepting RAND standards.
>>
>> So you know what that means when they use undefined terms like this.
>
> Well, not really. Adoption of a particular standard is always publicly
> discussed, as it is happening right now. However, my point is that if
> you want to influence such a decision, you should really consider
> participating in the discussion rather than just asking hundreds of
> people with little knowledge of the actual problem to send the very same
> message hundreds of times on the list where the discussion is supposed
> to happen.

The root of the problem is the IETF policy.

This is a good opportunity to show that IETF policy is corrupted by
the patent community.

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Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
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