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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