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Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-15 15:26:09
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry(_dot_)moreau(_at_)connotech(_dot_)com>

Some sections of the IETF would be more vendor-heavy, e.g. the routing 
area. In those sections, only a serious economic study might tell to 
which extent the "patent pool" (wikipedia is your friend) excludes the 
permissionless inventor in those IETF sections.

My impression of the presentation is that it does not focus on
innovation that is part of, and extends, an existing technological
area, but rather innovation that uses existing technology as a
"platform" upon which to build new technology.  This sort of
innovation is less vulnerable to attack via patents, but it is
vulnerable to service providers that can differentially price the use
of the platform within the new application. 

Dale