Re: [dane] AD review of draft-ietf-dane-smime-14

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 09 February 2017 04:18 UTC

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>the IPR declaration's statement that licensing information
>will be provided "later."

I agree with Paul that it's a lousy application, and I think that more
likely than not it'll be abandoned with no patents granted.  But if
any of the three applications (US, EU, China) turned into actual
patents, and Verisign were to require a license that cost money, or
that was otherwise incompatible with open source implementations, that
would be a problem.

I see that Verisign has offered a free-unless-you-sue-us license for
other patent applications, like this one, dunno why they do for some
but not others:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2703/

In any event, you alrady know what my suggested solution is.

R's,
John