[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

Hallam-Baker, Phillip pbaker at verisign.com
Tue Dec 12 04:28:19 UTC 2006


Not a good model. Before the Web the number of patent trolls was much smaller and they were less vicious.

HTTP was designed at CERN which explicitly released all the IPR into the public domain. 

Even then there have been many issues and many cases with disgraceful outcomes. Plenty of my own work was stolen.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Messina [mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:51 PM
> To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> Cc: David Nicol; Gavin Baumanis; Martin Atkins; 
> specs at openid.net; general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but what's the IPR that governs 
> protocols like IMAP and HTTP?
> 
> Would we be able to take a similar tack with OpenID?
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 12/11/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:
> > Don't worry about the patent trolls there is only one way 
> to stop them and that is not to have any money worth stealing.
> >
> > There are probably snots already reading the list archive 
> so they can claim to have invented stuff. Someone claimed to 
> have invented one IETF standard five years after the group started.
> >
> > Fortunately the USPTO is slightly more selective these days 
> and the publication period gives us a chance to try a new 
> tactic: lets file a writ for perjury on the alleged 
> inventors. Probably won't go anywhere but given the history 
> its worth a try.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: specs-bounces at openid.net
> > > [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of David Nicol
> > > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:04 PM
> > > To: Gavin Baumanis
> > > Cc: specs at openid.net; Martin Atkins; general at openid.net; James A. 
> > > Donald
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft
> > >
> > > but the openID standard is more than a year old already.
> > >
> > > On 12/10/06, Gavin Baumanis <gavin.baumanis at rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> > > > > So the technology is first proposed and described on this
> > > list, on
> > > > > 2006 December 7, 2006.  It is incorporated into the 
> standard and 
> > > > > comes to be widely used around about, say, 2007 
> August.  On 2007 
> > > > > December 5, 2007, the patent troll has a friendly individual 
> > > > > inventor file an p! atent application claiming to have
> > > invented the
> > > > > technology on 2007, december 6.
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