Re: Entrust Technologies Announces Royalty-free License for CRL Distribution Points Patent

[Warwick Ford <wford@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also am very pleased to see this move by Entrust.  When can we see the
full statement of licensing terms?  Royalty-free is good, but we need to be
sure that there are no other problematic terms or conditions associated
with the license.

Assuming that turns out all clear, then the profile can certainly proceed
immediately to Proposed Standard with CDPs and the other extensions and
policy qualifiers reinstated.

We would also like to continue study of OpenCDP on the ietf-pkix list --
there are some features here that look very valuable and that we may want
to include in a follow-up standard.

Warwick


At 11:57 AM 4/23/98 -0400, Tim Polk wrote:
>
>I was delighted to see Steve's email.  Perhaps we can put patents and
>politics behind us and move on to building and deploying security
>solutions.  In that light:
> 
>At the LA meeting, I proposed to remove two certificate extensions (crl
>distribution points and authority info access) and two crl extensions
>(issuing distribution point and certificate issuer) from the profile
>forwarded to the IESG.  This decision was based entirely on IP issues, not
>technical merit.  As the patent encumbrances have been removed, I now
>intend to leave these extensions in the specification.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim Polk
>
>At 11:28 AM 4/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Members of the IETF community;
>>
>>In response to your concerns, Entrust Technologies is pleased to announce
>>that rights in its US Patent 5,699,431 will be licensed on a royalty-free
>>basis. The entire announcement can be found on the Entrust Technologies
>>website, by following the attached link:
>>
>>http://www.entrust.com/news/1998/04_23_98.htm
>>
>>For more information, contact
>>
>>Steve Samson
>>
>>Entrust Technologies Inc.
>>750 Heron Rd.,  8th Floor
>>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1V 1A7
>>
>>voice:			613-247-3725
>>fax:			613-247-3412
>>email:			steve.samson@entrust.com
>>Entrust Validation String:	SCKM-HQDL-X75G
>>
>>
>
>

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