RE: A thought about patents

["Michael B. Bellopede" <Michael.CTR.Bellopede at tc.faa.gov>]

network devices are assigned IP addresses, DNS names.  Network devices may
have memory, disks, cache, and CPU/s.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Crowcroft [mailto:J.Crowcroft at cs.ucl.ac.uk]
>Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:24 PM
>To: ietf at ietf.org
>Subject: Re: A thought about patents
>
>
>internet bogon alert
>"find the server"
>
>is a server where the ip address, DNS name, lat/long of the CPU,
>memory, disk, or cache, transprent or otherwise is"
>
no, above you describe devices, their possible network attributes, and
hardware components.  A server, by definition, is software that provides a
service, and is run on a device such >>as the one described above.

8>)

-Michael B. Bellopede
 Michael.CTR.Bellopede at tc.faa.gov
  "There is no spoon."