Changes to IETF-announce - archive missing?

2004-04-02 Thread Graham Klyne
I understand that IETF-announce details are being changed. It appears that in the process, at least some of the message archives have disappeared from the Web. Specifically, Google gave me this URI: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/msg27131.html (So I guess it must have

Re: Creation of an I-D-Announce Mailing List

2004-04-02 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, The IETF Secretariat wrote: - Step 3: Activate the I-D-Announce and new IETF-Announce lists, and modify internal procedures so that all I-D Action announcements go to the I-D Announce list. It seems I-D announcements for WG documents are no longer Cc:'ed WG

Re: Subdomain Patent Sparks Concerns

2004-04-02 Thread Dean Anderson
LPF President Hat The article wasn't quite accurate: Business method patents that cover software programs weren't legal until a few years ago, Dicig says, so there is no comprehensive way for the PTO to search for software and computer-related technology that's already been invented, other

Re: Creation of an I-D-Announce Mailing List

2004-04-02 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Pekka, I-D announcements for WG documents are SUPPOSED to be CCed to the WGs. Please report this as a bug (after checking that the announcement is not caught in an antispam filter) Harald --On 2. april 2004 17:06 +0300 Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25

Patents? we don't need no stinking Patents!

2004-04-02 Thread Dan Kolis
Dean Anderson said, and is While finding prior art is hard problem in any field, it would be helpful if the Patent Office hired more experts in the fields that they offer patents in, and in particular, more computer scientists. Dan says: In the above, a chemist would substitute Chemist