> On 2 Dec 2016, at 10:33, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> writes: > >> IIRC that was sort-of a condition for adoption of the work in the IETF 20 >> years ago, when there were two different protocols already being deployed and >> the proponents of one of them said "we'll use that other one (SSL) but you >> gotta change the name of the standard or we can't get our <bosses> to agree >> to change to all use the same thing." > > It was Netscape with SSL vs. Microsoft with PCT. > > If no-one from Microsoft has any objections, can we just rename it back to > what it's always been for everyone but us, SSL?
Is that even possible? The way I’ve heard it “SSL” is a registered trademark owned by Netscape (now AOL), so we can’t use it unless AOL lawyers sign off on that. It might be wrong, but if it’s true - good luck with that. Yoav _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
