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

[Enrico Marocco <enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it>]

Benjamin Henrion 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/

I think the statement pertinent to the discussion is 1026 (whose update
chain goes back 940 and 912).

> "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?

I have absolutely no idea. I remember a discussion about IPR statements
retention policies, but haven't followed nor have an opinion about that.
If you are interested, you will probably enjoy this thread I googled for
you: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg52909.html.

-- 
Ciao,
Enrico

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