Sirs: I would like to voice my opposition to approving the TLS-authorization technology as an experimental standard. The reason for this opposition is that a company, RedPhone Security, has applied for a patent on this technology. Approving patented or patent pending technology as an internet standard, even an experimental one, would lead to fragmentation as free software implementations like GnuTLS could not legally implement the standard, thus hindering interoperability. This would apply equally to commercial implementations, unless each vendor licenses the technology once a patent is granted. Please reject the standardization request. Mit freundlichem Gruß / Kind Regards
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