Re: [KEYPROV] Second Last Call: draft-ietf-keyprov-symmetrickeyformat (Symmetric Key Package Content Type) to Proposed Standard

[SM <[e-mail]>]

At 13:19 28-04-10, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>I did not notice the date.

As your concern seems to be about the disclosure and not the validity 
of the patent, you could overlook the date.

>More worrisome, I cannot read the reference.  The link goes to a page

FYI 36 mentions ISO/IEC 7812-1:1993.

I note that this second Last Call is because the writeup failed to 
highlight a normative down reference to an Experimental RFC.  One of 
the questions asked before a Last Call was:

   "Has an IPR disclosure related to this document been filed? If so,
    please include a reference to the disclosure and summarize the WG
    discussion and conclusion on this issue."

The answer to that was:

   "There are no concerns with this document. No IPR disclosures have
    been field."

Given that a patent is explicitly referenced in 
draft-ietf-keyprov-symmetrickeyformat, there should have been a note 
about that.  There shouldn't have been a reference to the patent in 
the I-D.  One of the authors mentioned that it is a bad reference and 
it will be changed.

On a tangent, authors (I am not referring to any author associated 
with this draft) should be aware that they are claiming that their 
"Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the 
provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79".  Saying that there is an open 
source implementation or that other SDO didn't see any issue is not a 
disclosure.

Regards,
-sm