fredagen den 17 oktober 2003 15.43 skrev John Keller: > Oden Eriksson wrote: > > There could be patents regarding this... > > http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,59043 >,00.html > > > http://www.i-d-n.net/#patents > > The dateline in the first article is 28 March 2001, and the article > mentions that the IETF would start over from scratch, if needed, to avoid > infringement. > > The second has a link to the patent claim, and its withdrawal on 15 March: > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/WALID-IDN > > From what I remember with the W3C's tangled mess(es) stemming from > companies not filing until late in processes, companies are asked to come > forward at the start so whatever standards body can avoid problems. I am > far from being a lawyer, but if there is an IETF has an actual > recommendation then I would expect that it's because it's confidant that > legal issues have been cleared up. > > I could be wrong, so this is an pen invitation to slap me down. In light of > Sweden's adoption at the tld level, I would expect that Mandrake has a > pretty clear path in the wake of others' due diligence.
Thank you. As Verisign has done an plugin for MSIE I guess it's safe for Mandrake to implement this as well. I was thinking if there may be a Chinese/Japanese distro that has allready done work in this direction, maybe we could rip patches and stuff... (redflag?)
