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Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-22 20:25:29
patent raid on a development standard, and invited future raids by
Microsoft and others.

Given that the WG was shutdown with no ratified standard, this also seems
like a serious misrepresentation.

In what way?  Microsoft now knows that with the mere threat of a patent
it either can shut down IETF standards work it dislikes or seize control
of the results through the patent system.  The IETF has dignaled that it
will do nothing to oppose or prevent these outcomes.

How so Eric?  Could you give an example of potential weakness in the
IETF process that could be exploited?  So perhaps we could start
patching?  How would such a patent based denial of service attack scenario
play out?


The raid *failed* - thanks to the IETF doing the right thing.

It looks like success to me.

Not really.  We still have email.

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              <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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