--__--__-- Message: 7 From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> To: "'Esa Laitinen'" <esa@laitinen.org>, asrg@ietf.org Subject: RE: [Asrg] 'GIEIS' - The Fourth Response Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:50:27 -0700 I seem to remember that excessive port scanning was one of the issues that was litigated in the new Zealand ORBS cases.
I tried to read the GIEIS paper and I cannot understand what the proposal
is, what it is trying to achieve or what the prospect of a reduction in spam
as a result would be.
Statements that 'intellectual copyright' is reserved do not lend confidence,
I am not aware of any such concept in US or international copyright law.
Copyright protects the embodiment of an idea, never the idea itself. Even
the EU doctrine of moral right of the author does not cover this.
Phill