At 7:00 AM +0530 1/22/10, Abhishek Verma wrote: >And what are those motivations? Wouldnt patenting be the most obvious >thing to do? Clearly not. There are literally thousands of existence proofs for that. > >>The typical response was that most ISPs prefer multiple vendors, and a >>>patented solution will cause issues as the other vendor will not have >>>that support. Is this the only reason? >> >> No. > >This may not be the only reason, but is this a valid reason at all? Yes. Again, there are literally thousands of existence proofs for that. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf