More on TTSSH and the SSH trademark

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ollie.clive.ia.us
Thu Feb 15 07:28:06 EST 2001


On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:05:34PM -0500, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> 
> In the future it would be good for the IETF to reject drafts that
> incorporate trademarked names to stop this kind of thing happening
> again.

See RFC 2026 section 10 (dated October 1996) and RFC 1602 section 5
(dated March 1994) regarding the treatment of intellectual property
rights by the IETF.

Also, the fact that much of the early work on SSH was done by Tatu
Ylonen at the Helsinki University of Technology may have an effect on
the situation.

Jeff





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