Copy of note sent to ISOC re Motorola

Steve Coya <scoya@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Tue, 21 March 1995 19:01 UTC

To: iesg@CNRI.Reston.VA.US, iab@isi.edu
Subject: Copy of note sent to ISOC re Motorola
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:01:34 -0500
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From: Steve Coya <scoya@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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Greetings,

Attached is a note I sent to ISOC.

The "good news" part is that this letter of intent is from a corporate
officer, as opposed to their patent counsel! This is a significant
event - though we still need the written assurances, we now know that
Motorola truely intends to provide them.


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To: Vint Cerf <105-0002@mcimail.com>, Tony Rutkowski <amr@isoc.org>
cc: 3432266@mcimail.com, rkahn@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Letter of intent received from Motorola
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 95 15:41:03 -0500
From: Steve Coya <scoya@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>

Vint and Tony,

Good news! G. David Forney (Vice-President, Technical Staff,
Informations Systems Group, Motorola) has stated that Motorola intends
to make licenses available to applicants, under reasonsable terms and
conditions, when patents held by Motorola are technically essential to
implementing the Encryption Control Protocol (ECP), a product of the
PPPEXT Working Group of the IETF.

As you know, we've been working with Motorola on the Compression
Control Protocol (CCP) specification which has been submitted to the
IESG by the PPPEXT Working Group for consideration as a Proposed
Standard, and for which a Last Call has been sent to the IETF. The
Encryption Protocol has the exact same status (up for Proposed, Last
Call sent).

I have written to David Forney thanking Motorola and asking him to
confirm that Motorola will provide licenses to applicants implementing
EITHER or BOTH specifications. I have also provided a copy of RFC 1602,
and noted the section which states that "... agreement on assurances
between the owner of rights and ISOC" will be entered into at the time
the specification is to be raised to the Proposed Standard level.

Both specifications are ready to enter the standards track. I will let
you know as soon as I receive confirmation from Motorola, at which time
I expect ISOC will take the matter up with Motorola directly.

I will fax a copy of David Forney's letter to you for your files on
Monday, March 20.


Steve

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Copy of note sent to ISOC re Motorola Steve Coya