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Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 19 February 2009 06:06 UTC

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:06:55 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Christian Huitema <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:54:49 -0800
Christian Huitema <huitema@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:

> This discussion of IPR seems to be running in circle. Can't we switch
> to something else, e.g. whether RFC could be written in some other
> format than ASCII text?
> 
Sorry, that idea is patented or something.  No, I've got it -- it's a
W3C trade secret.  


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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