Re: [Enum] Social ENUM / Patents and Intellectual Property

[Duane <[e-mail]>]

On 04/03/12 14:56, Eric Stone wrote:
> Dear ENUM Group,
>
> In reference to draft-goix-appsawg-enum-sn-service-00.txt I have to 
> raise my hand and ask to slow down.  My apologies first in case this 
> rubs people the wrong way, I do not want to be a party pooper, but I 
> do feel that this is my party.  Our intellectual property re: Social 
> ENUM date to 2008 and we specifically did not publish to the IETF and 
> have done the traditional patent protection around this tech.  
> Interestingly the latest draft is spot on --  which really begs the 
> question as from what I understood, you can't protect an open standard 
> and therefore we did not do so.  I don't mind sharing but the specific 
> mechanisms described in the draft are in direct conflict with our IP. 
>   We even built the server and have it in operation and are moving 
> into trial with a major operator.    Specifically the use of any type 
> of "sn" style records in ENUM / E164 and other lookup type db's would 
> be in direct violation of our IP.

e164.org was publishing IM and other social network information via DNS 
at least as far back as December 2006, I'd have to check the mailing 
list archive for specific dates.

And before it gets pointed out, no we didn't use SN, but that seems an 
incremental and/or novel change over what we are doing.