Re: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.

[Russ Housley <housley at vigilsec.com>]

Tim:

I agree that the value of anything is set by the market.

Please tone down the sarcasm.  The IETF Discussion mail list and the 
IETF IPR WG mail list both need to be inviting places for open discussion.

Thanks in advance,
  Russ

At 11:42 AM 10/24/2008, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, TS Glassey <tglassey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Since there is now a specific value estimated by the LINUX 
> community at 1.4B
> > for the kernel itself
>
> Hey, I've done an analysis and found that my toenail clippings are
> worth $3.8762 billion.  That kernel-valuation exercise is the silliest
> kind of science fiction.  Let me let you in on a little secret:
> Everything in the world has a value, and that value is exactly what
> people are prepared to pay for it.  No more, no less.
>
> On payment of a generous consulting fee, I would be delighted to
> "estimate a specific value" for any given RFC or even I-D.  I'll even
> issue gold-framed certificates you can mount on the wall.  -Tim
>
> > , the IETF can no longer hide its head in the sand
> > claiming that its workproduct has no specific value. This also means that
> > ANY AND ALL contributions to the IETF no matter when they happened now need
> > to be formally acknowledged for their financial value at the time of their
> > contribution.
> >
> > This is not an OPTION.
> >
> > Todd Glassey

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