What if VeriSign had invested the Internet? Perhaps Vint and Bob should
reconsider patenting the Internet and charge all these corporations then
donate the proceeds to the Internet poor? :-j
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"Then the question was would it be something that could be rolled out
tothe rest of the world? We didn't know for sure but when we worked on
it, we
decided not to patent, not to copyright, not to control, but to share
everything we knew about the Internet design to the general public all
around the world." <
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138216/Cerf_Turning_off_pieces_of_the_Net_not_sensible_
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Alex

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Kerry Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  I don’t know enough about patent law to know how broad the implications
> of this patent are. If successful would this mean anyone transferring a
> DNSSEC enabled domain has to pay a fee to VeriSign?
>
> *http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/verisign-dnssec.pdf*<http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/verisign-dnssec.pdf>
>
> Kerry Brown
>
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