What if VeriSign had invested the Internet? Perhaps Vint and Bob should reconsider patenting the Internet and charge all these corporations then donate the proceeds to the Internet poor? :-j   <br>---<br>"Then the question was would it be something that could be rolled out <span class="il">to</span> the rest of the world? We didn't know for sure but when we worked
on it, we <span class="il">decided</span> <span class="il">not</span> <span class="il">to</span> <span class="il">patent</span>, <span class="il">not</span> <span class="il">to</span> copyright, <span class="il">not</span> <span class="il">to</span> control, but <span class="il">to</span> share everything we knew about the Internet design <span class="il">to</span> the general public all around the world." <<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138216/Cerf_Turning_off_pieces_of_the_Net_not_sensible_" target="_blank">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138216/Cerf_Turning_off_pieces_of_the_Net_not_sensible_</a>><br>


<br>Alex<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Kerry Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kerry@kdbsystems.com" target="_blank">kerry@kdbsystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">








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<div>I don’t know enough about patent law to know how broad the implications of this patent are. If successful would this mean anyone transferring a DNSSEC enabled domain has to pay a fee to VeriSign?</div>
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