RE: VeriSign Patents on Registries/Registrars and other readings

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Mott [mailto:peter.mott@2day.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:12 PM
>To: Rick H Wesson; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>Subject: RE: VeriSign Patents on Registries/Registrars and other
>readings 
>
>
>> below are some patents that Verisign has applied for, I thought some of
>> you may be interested in these applications as they may impact some of
>> your businesses if granted.
>
>Such applications demonstrate considerable bad faith on the part of
>Verisign.  It would be ok if the 'inventions' were created in-house
entirely
>with their own clue.
>
>Verisign's big business attempt to patent stuff created using new world
>co-operative effort by small business, individuals and academics is nothing
>less than evil.

There is no bad faith at work here at all.  If you took the time to read the
applications, you would find that they refer to work originally performed
2-3 years ago related to the current NSI SRS, or they are registrar business
mechanisms, all of which WAS done "in-house entirely with their own clue".
They have NOTHING to do with ANY of the work being performed in this WG.

<Scott/>