On Sep 13, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
I'm really confused as to why you think that's true.
The long answer:
Because the Microsoft IPR claim calls out -pra and -core in
combination. And we know the algorithm has changed. And that is why I
wrote "This would seem to at least exclude any scopes that use 2822
headers to identify the party most recently responsible for injecting
the message." And I suspect it is actually broader than that.
Therefore, using the fetchmail algorithm to do such a thing for
anti-forgery using DNS records, which is not why the fetchmail
algorithm is in fetchmail, seems to infringe upon the patent
application. No matter what, the IETF cannot decide what is and what
is not prior art -- courts do that.
The short answer:
Because if I had written the patent application, that's probably what
I would have done.
-andy