[Enum] Social ENUM / Patents and Intellectual Property

[Eric Stone <[e-mail]>]

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.