The patent would have expired by now? On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Samir Srivastava wrote: > Hi, Thx for your comments. Private walled garden creates lots of > interoperabilty issues. In the long term with deployments in the > field, even after the expiry of patents we end up for a workable > solution to carry unnecessary burden. e.g. I 'GUESS' pains of htonl > etc are due to patents. IMHO we need to free human brain & cpu for > more important issues. It is not fair for people who work on > unpatented baselines specifications. What would have been situation if > IP header was patented? Thx Samir > > > On 7/27/11, Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 27/Jul/11 08:07, Samir Srivastava wrote: >>> Standards are developed by community & for community. There is no >>> role of patent hunters in that. >> >> I agree, with the exception of "defensive" patents, some of which are >> announced with very elegant disclosures. Let's draw a veil over >> incomprehensible and confused disclosures, for now. For the rest, >> what is the purpose of standardizing a private walled garden? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf