Re: [TLS] [Ietf-honest] Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-extractor (Keying

[Richard Stallman <[e-mail]>]

    Seems to me that, in the context of asking parties to self-declare their
    "IP", it's better to error on the side of overly broad terminology.

I think you may not appreciate how different these laws are.  There is
no way copyrights can restrict the use of a normal internet standard.

(Someone might have a copyright on text you want to incorporate into
the text of the standard, but that is a different kind of issue.
Also, the IETF presumably knows who contributed that text, so there
is no need to ask the public "Did any of this text come from you?")

     Someone somewhere is thinking he has a trademark on the first four
    octets of a protocol message

Trademark laws concerns the way products are packaged and advertised.
Since these are not packaging or advertising, I think trademark law
doesn't apply to them.  I am not a lawyer, and it would be interesting
to ask one to make sure.  But I think this is just a misunderstanding.

Trade secret law can't be pertinent, since a draft standard is public
knowledge already.

Basically, only patent law can prohibit use of a standard.