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

[Stephen Samson <stephen.samson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Details of non-financial license terms will be made public next week.

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> From: 	Warwick Ford[SMTP:wford@verisign.com]
> Sent: 	23 April, 1998 4:04 PM
> To: 	Tim Polk; ietf-pkix@imc.org; Stephen Samson
> Subject: 	Re: Entrust Technologies Announces Royalty-free License for
> CRL Distribution Points Patent
> 
> 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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