fyi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Vint Cerf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vint@google.com" target="_blank">vint@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
i am trying to find out a bit more about verisign's plans and motivations. <div><br></div><div>Bob and I did not patent as you know precisely to be sure that it was open to all. At this point it is too late to patent because we made everything public and that's a good thing.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>v</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com" target="_blank">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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>to</span> the rest of the world? We didn't know for sure but when we worked
on it, we <span>decided</span> <span>not</span> <span>to</span> <span>patent</span>, <span>not</span> <span>to</span> copyright, <span>not</span> <span>to</span> control, but <span>to</span> share everything we knew about the Internet design <span>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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