How to id all RAND "standards" Question
tom poe
tompoe at renonevada.net
Wed Apr 17 13:14:05 CDT 2002
Hi: I've spent the last week trying to communicate with the W3.org folks in
an effort to get a handle on a clear and easy to read list of W3.org
standards and categorized as to whether these standards are either
royalty-free, or RAND [patent-encumbered]. Does anyone know where I might
get such an organized list that's authoritative and can be relied upon?
I can't help but worry that the proposed legislative assault is going to
somehow integrate controls that include utilization of patent-encumbered
standards to the benefit of corporations such as IBM and Microsoft in the
case of ebXML, and others. A fellow named Thomas Fielding [of Apache fame]
wrote a nice dissertation on http and did a good job of laying out some of
the options for the future of the Internet. In the face of such logic, we
somehow are all caught up in attempts to move away from this standard for
communicating, through proprietary protocols. This begs the question, Why?
I recommend the dissertation as some interesting reading.
http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top
Thanks,
Tom
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