[TLS] Inclusion of OCB mode in TLS 1.3

[Phillip Rogaway <[e-mail]>]

A couple of colleagues were kind enough to tell me that there 
were discussions going on on this mailing list about including 
OCB in TLS 1.3; but that there were still some IP-related 
concerns.  I'd like to quell those as best I can.  So let 
me go on record as indicating that I think it would be great 
if TLS supported OCB; and that I'm happy to freely and 
automatically license any IP of mine for OCB under TLS.

I suspect that most use-cases for TLS-with-OCB would 
already be covered by one of the prior patent-grants 
I've done.  But, for anything that might fall in a gap, 
the simplest thing, I suspect, is for me to do an 
"IETF Patent Disclosure and Licensing Declaration" 
specifying royalty-free licensing for use of OCB in 
compliance with a TLS-specifying RFC.  I'm happy to 
submit one of those.  I might need some help to identify
what RFC number(s) to cite.

Thanks for all your hard work on advancing crypto
standards and improving TLS.

phil