[Top] [All Lists]  RE: Can there be an early decision on the
SenderID license?  2004-08-26 10:33:29  On Wed, 2004-08-25 at
20:56, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Right now, we are supposed
to be reviewing all of the documents. However, as demonstrated
in the "DEPLOY/IPR: Fundamental Disagreements, or Get On With
It" thread, there doesn't seem to be a rough consensus that the
SenderID license is acceptable.  (Actually, there appears to be
a rough consensus that it isn't acceptable.)  I have yet to see
a statement that makes a valid legal argument  that the license
terms prohibit open source distribution.          It will not
take a valid legal argument to derail the widespread deployment
of any standard that comes from this working group. All that is
needed is the, perhaps unfounded, fear that implementing
SenderID or any other standard with nebulous IPR issues is going
to bite the user in a tender area.           FUD can be a quite
powerful deterrent. Why spend so much time working on a standard
that is so engul