On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Vint Cerf
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i am trying to find out a bit more about verisign's plans and motivations.
Bob and I did not patent as you know precisely to be sure that it was open to all. At this point it is too late to patent because we made everything public and that's a good thing.
v
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Alex Gakuru
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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 to the 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_>
Alex
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Kerry Brown
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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?
Kerry Brown