TLS-AUTHZ Patent Concerns
I’ve implemented tls-authz in GnuTLS but there has been a long discussion of the patent situation for that technology on the IETF list. A few days ago there was a new IPR Disclosure with a patent license for this technology:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=833
I evaluated this license from a free software perspective, here is my writeup:
October 18th, 2007 at 16:23
[...] The TLS-AUTHZ document (protocol spec here) describes a mechanism to add support for authorization in the TLS protocol. The idea is part of a patent application, see the patent notification to the IETF. The protocol has a complicated history in the IETF. Right now a third last call is open to request feedback from the community. I’ve written about TLS-AUTHZ before. [...]