Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

[Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bodo Moeller wrote:
> A caveat is that we do not know about additional pending patents that
> Certicom may have.  Specifically, Certicom claims to have a patent
> application covering point compression, and noone else really knows
> what is in it.  So it may be prudent to avoid compressed point
> representations.

It seems to me entirely unacceptable that we should even be discussing
I-Ds which relate to patents of unknown content. Certicom should either
reveal what they do or do not have pending, or go away.

Cheers,

Ben.

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