On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Julian Reschke wrote: > Yaakov Stein wrote: > > > > > >> Clarifying that "publicly known" means "well defined and publicly > > available", I would answer no... > > > > and if it is restricted to mean > > "open description so that you could write your own editor to read and > > write this format" ? > > ...without having to sign a contract to the owner of the format, being > able to rely on its stability, and not having to pay for it...? IOW, no IPR issues, no lawsuits for implementing/using it or letting others use what someone has written (documentation or source code) (?) -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf