Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-06 Thread Stewart Bryant
Check with the lawyers, but I think that you will find that this is strictly a US view of patents. In every other country any public disclosure anywhere immediately voids the right to patent. Even NDA disclosure can be tricky, because an offer for sale counts as a disclosure. Stewart Doug Ro

Re: Privacy & law

2000-04-06 Thread Martin Montenegro
Salvador Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think that as much conflicts that can be solved without the traditional >way: regulation + represion = burocracy + injustice, will be better for users. >But on privacy questions we can try first to give technical solutions, i.e. >ways to follow stamped

MPLS and Private Network

2000-04-06 Thread David Wang
Title: MPLS and Private Network Dear Friends, A company consists of 2 remotely separated sites, A and B. A leased T1 line connects the networks on these 2 sites together. We generally call the company's network a private network since the connection between the 2 sites are private leased lin

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-06 Thread John Stracke
Brijesh Kumar wrote: > Granting of patents only means that a person grated a particular patent > was first to make "a claim" about the novelty of an idea or technique > as far as the patent office knows on the basis of "previous claims submitted > to it.". At least in the US, at least sometimes,

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-06 Thread John Stracke
Masataka Ohta wrote: > We can have servers outside of US and there is no legislation (even > under US laws. note that the servers can serve yet another countries) > to make the servers illegal. Mmm...that sounds like a grey area. A company using patented tech to do business in the US may be sub

recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-06 Thread Keith Moore
I am writing to request that the RFC Editor not publish draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt as an RFC in its current form, for the following reasons: 1. The document repeatedly, and misleadingly, refers to NECP as a standard. I do not believe this is appropriate for a document which is not on the IETF sta

RE: MPLS and Private Network

2000-04-06 Thread Brijesh Kumar
Title: MPLS and Private Network David Wang writes: A company consists of 2 remotely separated sites, A and B. A leased T1 line connects the networks on these 2 sites together. We generally call the company's network a private network since the connection between the 2 sites are priv

[Fwd: RMONMIB WG interim meeting announcement]

2000-04-06 Thread Andy Bierman
Hi, The RMONMIB WG intends to hold an interim meeting to work on all aspects of the new charter. This includes: - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) - Transport Performance Metrics (TPM) - User-Defined TopN Monitoring MIB (UsrTopN) - DIFFSERV Monitoring MIB (DS-MON) Meeting Dat

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
John; > > We can have servers outside of US and there is no legislation (even > > under US laws. note that the servers can serve yet another countries) > > to make the servers illegal. > > Mmm...that sounds like a grey area. A company using patented tech to do > business in the US may be subjec

RE: Digital Copyright Law & Industrial Espionage 'Hacking'

2000-04-06 Thread Ben Davis
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Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-06 Thread Karl Auerbach
> I am writing to request that the RFC Editor not publish > draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt as an RFC in its current form, > for the following reasons: > 2. A primary purpose of the NECP protocol appears to be to > facilitate the operation of so-called interception proxies. Such > proxies violate t