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September 30, 2007 Russ Housley, Tim Polk and Harald Alvestrand silence whistle-blower Dean Anderson after well-founded complaints of misconduct are posted to the "IPR" Working Group regarding the patent-pending tls-authz protocol and past misconduct. Anderson is also the President of the League for Programming Freedom(LPF), a non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman to fight software patents and user interface copyrights. The IETF has previously tried to cover-up misconduct regarding omitted patent disclosures.

September 25, 2007 Tim Polk issues Third Last Call on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns in an attempt to obtain approval of non-free, patented protocol, despite the past history and the scandal involving Russ Housley. Polk also has a conflict of interest, and has made misstatements of fact.

June 19th, 2007 Ron Bonica Announces that Geoff Huston has resigned as Chair of the GROW Working Group. Huston, as Chair of the GROW WG, used "hardball tactics", and false charges of misconduct to silence critics and approve RFC4786 (draft-ietf-grow-anycast). This RFC asserted that Anycast (the technique of using the same IP address on several computers), was stable for stateful protocols. Using Anycast for stateful services, like TCP DNS, is controversial. Several root operators need the (false) claim of stateful stability to mislead the government oversight organizations into approving Anycast Root DNS operations. Their motive for doing this is so that they can sell copies of Root DNS servers to ISPs. Huston is employeed by a customer of ISC.ORG, one of the root operators promoting this idea, and has a conflict of interest in the matter.

March 2007. David Kessens is replaced by Ron Bonica. No reason is given. In November, Kessens announced his availablity to continue as Area Director. Kessens participated in false charges to silence discussion of Stateful Root DNS Anycast, and played "hardball" to get the IESG to approve RFC 4786 (draft-ietf-grow-anycast)

March 2007. Brian Carpenter is replaced as IETF Chair by Russ Housley. Housley is under investigation for deceiving the IESG and IETF about patents which apply to a draft Housley wrote. While Housley knew of patent during the whole time the draft was being reviewed, Housley did not disclose this information, and represented a number of times in documents submitted to the IETF that all patents he was aware of had been disclosed. The Patent Policy of the IETF, RFC 3979 requires disclosure of any patents that may apply.