On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:54 AM, Hector Santos wrote:
I second your concerns. This is completely disturbing. Not
only do I think the proposals are faulty, will incur a high
degree of compatibility issues, will translates to a high
revamping and resign cost, I now have to worry about
fighting what would be prior art issues anyway?
No, there is got to be a better answer to all this. This is
fast becoming a "MICROSOFT" only solution and Bill Gates
recent quote saying using security as a "Strategic
Competitive Advantage" might come back to bite him in the
anti-trust area.
First, please read Ted Hardie's posting about our IP filing with respect
to the original Caller ID specification from which Sender ID is derived.
Second, to suggest that this is becoming a Microsoft only solution is
outrageous, abusrd and without any basis in fact!
In reality we have been working in good faith within this group to
arrive at an Internet standard that the whole industry can support with
the objective of addressing a problem that we are all concerned about.
The current drafts, and the revisions we are now working on following
last week's design review, are dramatically different from our original
Caller ID proposal -- a fact that reflects our willingness to compromise
with others in order to arrive at a common solution.
If you cannot restrain yourself from gratuitous Microsoft-bashing, I
strongly suggest that you
A) Do it somewhere else so you won't be disturbing people who are trying
to accomnplish meaningful work, and
B) Get your facts right.