On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:42:06 -0400 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > "Frank Ellermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto>. > > > > I noticed that the 00 draft would expire in two days, and submitted > > a 01 with only minor changes. > > I like this document a lot; kudo's to Simon for writing it! > > My personal opinion is that suggestions for how to write a free > standard published as an informational RFC is much more useful than > trying to get consensus around some edict that the IETF _only_ publish > free standards. > I agree. There are a number of problems with the current draft (i.e., the reference to RSA patents -- those expired years ago), but none that I think would block progress of the document. This is definitely worth pursuing. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
