RE: Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-04 Thread Eric Burger
+1 I would offer the page *does* look really nice. How do you think people would react if we made the Daily Dose http://www.ietf.org? But seriously, I would hesitate putting the Daily Dose at news.ietf.org, just because so many people are hard-wired for news.* to refer to a NNTP server.

RE: Patents can be for good, not only evil

2007-11-04 Thread Eric Burger
Very few patents are on the light bulb. Most are on better filaments. This highlights one reason why the system encourages people to patent stuff. If I want to market foo, which is an improvement on bar, then the owner of the patent on bar hopefully wants access to my improvement foo, which

Re: Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-04 Thread Dave Crocker
Eric Burger wrote: But seriously, I would hesitate putting the Daily Dose at news.ietf.org, just because so many people are hard-wired for news.* to refer to a NNTP server. http://www.ietf.org/news seems like a much more logical place. +1 for either, but in fact they are not mutually

Reminder: Offer of time on the IPR WG agenda for rechartering

2007-11-04 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Just a reminder I have not yet seen a request for time on the IPR agenda that is backed with an I-D fulfilling the criteria laid out below. Simon's free software guideline exists as an I-D, but I have not had a request to put it on the agenda. The deadline for -00 I-Ds is in a week.