[Enum] Re: IP claims that may impact ENUM

At 06:53 PM 5/20/2004, Patrik Fältström wrote:
On May 20, 2004, at 13:46, Lind, Steven D, ALABS wrote:
Internet Management Systems, Inc. (a Swiss company) has submitted a 
contribution to the current meeting of ITU-T Study Group 2 that claims 
that both they and HP have intellectual property and patents dealing with 
the mapping of telephone numbers to internet domain names. I couldn't 
find any IP statement on the IETF web site, although that is not the 
relevant issue. I wanted to make the WG members aware of this issue so 
that they can fold in any impact of this in their business plans.
Yes. we have to find this clearance by institutional body
that in-charged or mandatory institution(s) to do so.
ISOC?
-teddy
FYI: ENUM is using ideas from RFC 1486 published in July 1993 (which means 
Internet Drafts and testing were going on long before that date) which 
imply any patent claims talking about mapping of E.164 to domain names 
have to be filed before that date. The document specifies the tpc.int 
domain as root. So, ENUM was not where this mapping was invented.

1486 An Experiment in Remote Printing. M. Rose, C. Malamud. July 1993.
     (Format: TXT=26373 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1528, RFC1529) (Status:
     EXPERIMENTAL)
ENUM itself was first documented and implemented as part of a master 
thesis at Ericsson winter 1996-1997.

     Patrik Fältström

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