RE: Alternative formats for IDs

["Gray, Eric" <Eric.Gray at marconi.com>]

Ted,

	If that happens, don't you think that we would be
obliged to object to their claims?

	IMO, such claims would be easily defeated on the 
same basis as most "look & feel" claims have been beaten
in the past.  In fact, I am not aware of issues with any
sort of rights assertion relative to existing converters
for MS (or Adobe) document formats.

--
Eric 

--> -----Original Message-----
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--> On Behalf Of Theodore Ts'o
--> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:03 PM
--> To: John C Klensin
--> Cc: ietf at ietf.org
--> Subject: Re: Alternative formats for IDs
--> 
--> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:59:34PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
--> > 	(2) Development of a converter between the MS-XML output
--> > 	of Word Pro 2003 and the XML input of RFC 2629bis so
--> > 	that xml2rfc and its friends could take responsibility
--> > 	for final formatting.  Note that, if the converter were
--> > 	two-way, you could edit happily in Word and others could
--> > 	edit happily in XML and both could interwork.  However,
--> > 	as with the above, I think this solution would rapidly
--> > 	deteriorate into uselessness unless there were a
--> > 	commitment to produce new versions as new versions of
--> > 	Office appeared -- at least until Microsoft stabilizes
--> > 	and documents their XML formats.
--> 
--> And even when Microsoft stablizes their XML formats, each person who
--> wants to use the converter will have to apply individually to
--> Microsoft for a patent license, for which Microsoft has apparently
--> reserved the right to deny in the future for any reason.  Sweet....
--> 
--> 						- Ted
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