[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

[Chris Messina]

Fair enough, like I said, I'm not familiar with historical experience
on these matters...

On 12/11/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:
> 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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