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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:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.general/24690

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 at 13:51 and is filed under advocacy, gnutls, ietf, tls. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “TLS-AUTHZ Patent Concerns”

  1. Simon Josefsson’s blog » Blog Archive » On TLS-AUTHZ Says:
    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. [...]

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