On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Paul Wouters wrote:
Just to inform the IETF community,
Xelerance received a call from a person who refused to identify himself,
who threatened with law suits and would only say it was a matter of
"patent infringement". This person refused to reveal his name, his client
or the product of Xelerance that was deemed to be infringing. It is most
likely this person tried to pretend he was a lawyer, without actually
saying he wasn't.
He was informed to conduct further communication in writing.
I will keep the IETF informed if this indeeds relates to DNSSEC's supposed
violation of geospatial cryptography.
Paul
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:01:13AM -0800, TS Glassey wrote:
Yeah and like the other DNSSEC I-D's I dfound numerous things in it that
would violate the controls put in place by US Patent 6,370,629 of which I
am one of the two owners and controlling parties to that IP.
Please start litigating. I've looked at this patent and the other one you
mentioned in the context of DNSSEC, and based on earlier discussions with a
patent attorney, your claims don't look like they would stand up at least
in
Dutch courts.
I agree. The patent is irrelevant. One example of prior art I can come up
with already is Netscape restricting its SSL download in the 90's to US
citizens only, based on geogrpahical locations of IP addresses, back in
the early day before the Wassenaar Agreement relaxed US export controls,
a decade before the filing of this patent in 2002.
And last I looked, my DNSSEC servers and clients don't have a GPS, the only
part of the "invention" that might possible hold (IANAL)
But the Patent Holder seems to think using a physical key to lock out
everyone
"geospatially located outside my house" seems to violate their patent.
I have no idea how DNSSEC possibly relates to this.
Paul
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