On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > my feeling is if the autoconfig isn't necessary, and is encumbered how > about we live without it if possible :)
My question on this is the same as always -- considering that the lack of a patent disclosure does NOT guarantee that a technology is unencumbered, what do we gain by penalizing technologies for which a disclosure has been filed? In fact, from one point of view there is something to be preferred about a spec with an above-board RAND disclosure over a spec with no disclosure but that may be covered by some submarine patent held by a troll. I see an argument in favor of preferring a positively-known-to-be-unencumbered technology, but AFAIK that is a completely hypothetical case. (You would be wrong if you interpreted this as "John is happy with the state of patent law". The above represents my view of reality-as-it-is. My view of reality-as-I-wish-it-was is not particularly relevant, AFAICT.) --John with my own individual contributor hat on, of course _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
