On 2/24/2010 8:50 AM, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote:
If it were up to me, I'm not sure I'd want to bet the DNS infrastructure on whether or not patent lawyers with shark-skin briefcases want to make a mint by instigating a lawsuit. As we've seen with the SCO lawsuit, even completely groundless legal disputes can take years and years, and the only winner is the lawyers. And we've seen how much public key deployment was held back because of the RSA patents; and most people who have lived through those dark times really don't want to revisit them again.
right. (shudder) d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf