Re: [Enum] RE: My prior art published in august 2000 to abusive US Patent 6, 347, 085

[Patrik Fältström <paf at cisco.com>]

On 23 apr 2007, at 16.25, Tony Rutkowski wrote:

> At 04:04 PM 4/23/2007, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> > The first draft was released in 1998, under the name draft- 
> > faltstrom- e164-00.txt. I am
>
> Actually the prior art goes back to the drafts developed by Karl  
> Malamud
> and Marshall T Rose in 1993.  See RFC 1530 et seq.   It was  
> instantiatiated
> on tpc.int and has been in continuous use ever since.  This is were
> the real innovation and "art" first arose.   Malamad-Rose created the
> "art" and placed it in the public domain at that time.   The art  
> here is the
> use of a IP-based DNS resolver mechanism for E.164 numbers to reach
> a network terminal device.

Correct. I was "just" pointing out the history of RFC2916, without  
talking about prior art to that RFC. Many documents where written  
about E-164 and DNS. This tpc.int was probably the first  
implementation that was live world-wide.

   Patrik

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