- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:04:58 +0100
- To: XML Security Working Group WG <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
On 26 Jan 2009, at 20:24, XML Security Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > ISSUE-91: ECC can't be REQUIRED > > http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/track/issues/91 > > Raised by: Bruce Rich > On product: > > The XML Sig 1.1 and XML Enc 1.1 drafts currently identify the ECC > algorithms as REQUIRED. Given the instructions in Section 2 of the > following W3C policy, http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ > , we need to weaken the ECC statements to OPTIONAL, at least until > such time as RF status is reached for these algorithms. I strongly recommend against us spending tomorrow's call on an attempt to parse the patent policy. I'd be happy to organize a briefing with W3C's legal counsel for some future meeting, but would hope that we don't need to stall an FPWD on that. -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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