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RE: DEPLOY: Resolving IPR issues

2004-09-01 21:10:20

I am hoping for a breakthrough here. Attached a copy of my email
to Bill Gates - I suggest similar emails to senior executives at
Microsoft might be useful, especially if you have personal
contacts, because I feel sure we are dealing with bureaucratic
defensive legal tendencies here rather than managerial policy
decisions. That might be able to be reversed.

My email said basically

"Bill,

The adoption of Sender-ID seems under threat at IETF because of a
defensive patent/licensing condition Microsoft's legal people
seem intent on pushing.

The patent claim appears to be scant in any case because of prior
art. I believe that it might be time for a policy decision to be
taken to override this - that Microsoft intends to drop any legal
rights it might have in this case to co-operate with the rest of
the Internet community in fighting spam. That sounds like good
public relations to me and I believe Microsoft stands to gain
rather than lose by not imposing license conditions which are
seen as threatening by many in the open source community. 

Your Harry Katz and Jim Lyons and others have done great work in
co-operating with the rest of the community to bring out a
suitable standard. It would be a pity if any of this effort to
deal with the most significant problem facing email users was at
all undermined by your standard legal procedures. I think 5
minutes of your time could yield enormous benefits here."



Ian Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-mxcomp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org 
[mailto:owner-ietf-mxcomp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of wayne
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:45 AM
To: IETF MARID WG
Subject: Re: DEPLOY: A personal take on the IPR topic


In <C6127CFF-FC5F-11D8-BB96-000393A56BB6(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com> Mark 
Lentczner <markl(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com> writes:

As the chairs have asked for information about personal 
deployment, I 
wanted to share my view on the topic of IPR:

In light of the license terms, I will not be coding any 
implementation 
of the portions of SenderID that are covered by the IPR
claim.


I will add my own personal deployment take.


I am the co-author of one of the most widely used SPF
implementations.
Since I wrote the implementation in order to help out with 
the spam/forgery problem, it is important to me to have this 
implementation distributed far and wide.  It is also 
important for me to run my own code.

I do not believe that the current SenderID license will be 
accepted by most Linux and *BSD distributions and code 
requiring that license
would be excluding from those distributions.   A great deal of
work
has been done by others to get this SPF implementation into 
various distributions and patches written for most MTAs.

It I believe that it would therefore be counter productive to 
develope or deploy SenderID.  I believe that this will likely 
slow the deployment by many others.



-wayne






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