Hi Paul,
> At 6:27 AM +0530 1/22/10, Abhishek Verma wrote:
>>I spoke to several people offline and i couldnt get any good answers.
>
> I suspect that you got many good answers, maybe all different. The fact that
> many people have different motivations for submitting > their work to the
> IETF instead of {something else} is a feature, not a bug.
And what are those motivations? Wouldnt patenting be the most obvious
thing to do?
>
>>The typical response was that most ISPs prefer multiple vendors, and a
>>patented solution will cause issues as the other vendor will not have
>>that support. Is this the only reason?
>
> No.
This may not be the only reason, but is this a valid reason at all?
Thanks,
Abhishek
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
>
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