Re: iSCSI: SRP vs DH-CHAP

[David Jablon <dpj@theworld.com>]

Ted,

I will note that in regard to issuing "weaselly" statements,
some whiskers are showing in your note too.

I'm doing what I can to make progress here.

-- David

At 02:40 PM 4/4/02 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:12:57PM -0500, David Jablon wrote:
>> 
>> Bill, it is not clear to me whether you will or won't "need to
>> license patents", although you may have a legitimate reason to be
>> concerned about the unknowns.
>
>David,
>
>I will note that you could help deal with some of the unknowns if you
>could convince your employers to either assert that they believe your
>patent covers SRP, or is willing to make a statement that the patent
>does not cover SRP.
>
>The current wording:
>
>        This is to advise the IETF that Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
>        ("Phoenix") has U.S. Patent Number 6,226,383 that may
>        relate to the IETF document RFC 2945 titled "The SRP
>        Authentication and Key Exchange System".
>
>...is certainly cause of considerible uncertainty.  In fact, some on
>the IESG have called it a FUD letter. ...

You just gotta love those second hand opinions.

>If you'd like to do your part to get this technology (which you claim
>is so wonderful) in wider use, perhaps you could do what you can to
>clear up some of the unknowns?
>
>                                                - Ted