Policy-Discussion

[Duane at e164 dot org <duane AT e164.org>]

Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> Some CAs claim that a third party making statements about an identified
> cert (issuer+ serial) are (a) confusing the market for status/repository
> information (b) and it is NOT fair use to cite their copyrighted fields
> (issuer + serial). Often, on of those fields (the issuer name) contains
> a trademark. Yes those CA are American corporations, and yes they are
> corporates bullys. Whats new.

Ummmm from memory a lot of that stuff is just numbers, and it's very
hard to make a copyright and/or trademark cases for numbers, even in the
US many have tried and failed, eg 486 -> Pentium.

These sort of cases tend to get the EFF et al involved as well, if and
when it goes to court.

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