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Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

John W Noerenberg II <jwn2@qualcomm.com> Wed, 05 September 2001 21:07 UTC

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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:46:56 -0700
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
From: John W Noerenberg II <jwn2@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
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W/r/t Certicom's patents, I'm waiting to hear from a Simon 
Blake-Wilson at Certicom.  I don't know if he's a crypto guy, a 
patent guy,or something else entirely.  If someone knows him and has 
an email address, I'll pester him directly.

At 3:34 PM -0700 9/4/01, Jon Callas wrote:
>I have no idea how to do that, myself. But if someone else does the work
>and convinces us that it's generic, I say go for it. That's also why I said
>to do an informational RFC, make a sample implementation, let someone hack
>up GPG to work with it, and we'll see.

Dominikus'  draft has proposals for changes.  Is the proposal 
generic?  Do the proposals conflict with 2440bis in any way?  Are 
there implementations (and do they interoperate)?  These are the 
issues, *if* we clear the IPR hurdle.
-- 

john noerenberg
jwn2@qualcomm.com
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