Thanks for the link.
The information presented in the patent is explained very nicely, but my question to
fellow IDN members is this. In what context are we looking at the Walid patent??
Walid patent assumes that each client machine has to do the work before it calls a
server with mulitlingual name. I personally do not see this approach as being a
doable thing. There are far more client machines and a variety of OSes that will make
it impossible to get this patented approach to work. Not to mention that any open
source code will be stuck if it has to rely on this technology. Too many legal loop
holes, and special interest groups, have to adopt Walid's patent, and I doubt
Microsoft, and the Unix OS developers will all use this, becuase of the legalities
involved.
I feel a server side implementation is more appropriate for the long run, and to my
understanding there are companies that already have technologies that do similar
transformations and will work for international user, by simply setting up root
servers that will resolve those names, and in worst case senario, the client has to
set the networking of their machine to query a name server that can convert the
translated string.
So again I do not see why we are discussing Walid's patent?? Even if we have a
majority of people here feel that it is a great technology, no one is gong to fork a
penny to Walid unless there is no other way of doing the same thing for free. And the
fact that oher companies already resolve multilingual domains shows that other options
do exist.
I would appretiate any input from fellow members about this specific discussion, and
what does Walid expect from IETF??
Best regards
Adonis
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> Here is a link to Walid patent # 6182148:
http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__
Hope this helps.
Shaun
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