> From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Some sections of the IETF would be more vendor-heavy, e.g. the routing > area. In those sections, only a serious economic study might tell to > which extent the "patent pool" (wikipedia is your friend) excludes the > permissionless inventor in those IETF sections. My impression of the presentation is that it does not focus on innovation that is part of, and extends, an existing technological area, but rather innovation that uses existing technology as a "platform" upon which to build new technology. This sort of innovation is less vulnerable to attack via patents, but it is vulnerable to service providers that can differentially price the use of the platform within the new application. Dale