[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

[Chris Messina]

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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