On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Scott Brim <scott.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jorge Amodio allegedly wrote on 01/21/2010 10:41 EST: >> As an starting point you should read "The Tao of the IETF" RFC4677 >> (currently, >> update draft in progress). >> >> About your particular question read section 8.4.5. >> >> Regards >> Jorge > > Right. And it's subtler than you think. Some network operators have > patents (not just vendors). Some are held by organizations that only > exist to hold patents and don't actually know much about networking. > And just because something is patented doesn't mean it isn't > interoperable -- most networking standards are patented.
Just like as - "US Patent 6701329 - Aging and scavenging of DNS resource records" (Microsoft) - "US Patent 7337910 - Methods and devices for responding to request for unregistered domain name to indicate a predefined type of service" (Verisign SiteFinder fiasco) - "US Patent 6560634 - Method of determining unavailability of an internet domain name" (Verisign) - "US Patent 7580982 - Email filtering system and method" (Go Daddy) - "US Patent 7130878 - Systems and methods for domain name registration by proxy" (Go Daddy) Just to list a few. Be careful the next time you use "vi", somebody may have already patented that regular expression. Cheers Jorge
