esr(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com (Eric S. Raymond) wrote on 05.10.04 in
<20041005045722(_dot_)GA30817(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com>:
In the last 60 days, the IETF has taken the worst blow to its
credibility that I have observed in the entire history of the
organization. I refer, of course, to the Sender-ID debacle, which
exposed IETF's inability or unwillingness to defend Internet
standards against patent predation even when the existence of
prior art is readily establishable.
Strangely enough, those exact same events gave me hope that the IETF is
not yet hopeless.
I count this one as a win.
Because the evil patent side (i.e., MS) *failed* to get their patented
baby (which it turns out now probably isn't even theirs in the first
place) made into an Internet standard.
Before this had been played out, I had been rather afraid that they'd win
this round.
Instead, they lost, and we won.
Why is that bad?
MfG Kai
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