I met these guys at a trade show a couple of years ago and without know about this claim to fame ended up discussing internationalized URLs. IIRC they mentioned something about a patent. I just assume that whatever working groups are standardizing international DNS are working around it.
Barry Caplan www.i18n.com At 08:24 PM 11/22/2002 +0000, Michael Everson wrote: >Can there possibly be any truth in any of this? > >>The following is an article in the Danish paper Information: >> >>http://www.information.dk/Indgang/VisArtikel.dna?pArtNo=136309 >> >>Do you know anything about this. It is supposedly the company Walid >>(http://www.walid.com/) that has patented the transformation of non-a-z for >>use in URLs. >> >>An article in CumputerWorld (admittedly a year and a half old) - >>http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,59043,00.html >- has some references, among other things to the text of the patent. >> >>The Danish site Softwarepatenter.dk has it also: >http://www.softwarepatenter.dk/walid.html. It is quite new there. Is this >>whole thing just "hoax"? >-- >Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
