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

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm-sec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:04 PM 4/23/98 -0700, Warwick Ford wrote:

I spoke with John Ryan about this directly yesterday.  I don't think we
will need much to get the exact wording of terms out.  I am right now
testing out a few IPsec products that specifically care about this, so stay
tuned...

>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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Robert Moskowitz
ICSA
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