Re: [Asrg] [IP] 4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam

[Jim Fenton <fenton at cisco.com>]

At 06:51 PM 6/25/2004 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
>The reports I saw spoke of Yahoo as the corporation who owns (or
>rather, would own) the rights and Domain Keys as the
>sender-authentication system.  But as I said, until the patent is
>issued, nobody knows how broad it will be.
>
>> I didn't think the IETF allowed standards to be implemented that had
>> patents unless they were royalty free.
>
>I think the language is something like "on a nondiscriminatory basis".
>What that actually means is anyone's guess - it could very well just
>mean that they require the same $10 million royalty from anyone.
>
>Or, if they really are doing the patent as a purely defensive measure
>and want to DTRT, they could grant a perpetual *sublicensable* license
>to someone the open-source community trusts.  Until and unless they do
>something bearing a similar commitment, I don't trust them farther than
>I can throw them.

The specific licensing terms for DomainKeys are spelled out at:
        http://ietf.org/ietf/IPR/yahoo-ipr-draft-delany-domainkeys-base.txt

I recommend that reading that rather than speculating what the terms might be.

-Jim



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