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

[Benjamin Henrion <bh@udev.org>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Enrico Marocco
<enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it> wrote:
> Ivan F. Villanueva B. wrote:
>>>> AFAIK nobody was saying to ask the 100.000 supporters of the FFII
>>>> to send an email to IETF. But if they do it, the difference is
>>>> that people wants to express their independent opinion on the
>>>> issue, they don't get paid by the FFII.
>>> Actually the email I replied to in the first place was an explicit
>>> call for action, whose first sentence read like: "Urgent.  Send
>>> your note TODAY and CONFIRM the automatic reply from IETF."
>>
>> I understood it as 'it would be nice if the FFII could comment on it
>> (maybe sending *1* email today)'
>
> And thus avoiding a mail flood... which is just what I asked in the
> first place.
>
> This looks quite like a kindergarten argument, I have the impression it
> is going nowhere...

FFII was considering submitting an argumentation, the problem was that
the software patent intentions of the patent owner has been censored
by IETF:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/833/

"RedPhone Security, Inc.'s statement about IPR claimed in
draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt
This IPR disclosure was removed at the submitter's request."

Do you know the reasons why it was removed?

A transparent organisation like IETF should operate in complete
transparency, and publish everything, including correspondence with
patent owners.

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Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
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