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RE: New patent info
It's going to have an interesting problem with prior art from RFC 1038 in
1988, given that is has a filing date of 1989.
This patent is for a toy. One that would have been obvious even then. It
hadn't been previously patented because it was obvious and banally useless.
It quite obviously has no relevance to IPsec.
You can't even claim access controls, since routers had those before 1988.
He's fishing.
Use you judgement as to whether you want to spend any money on a lawyer over
this. At leas the IETF's IPR process is no longer so broken that this would
stop all progress on IPsec. (I once posed a hypothetical example on the PPP
mailing list, and caused a complete panic.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:phoffman@vpnc.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:44 AM
> To: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
> Subject: New patent info
>
>
> The IETF's intellectual property repository got an interesting
> addition yesterday: <http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/HALL-IPSEC>. Has
> anyone heard of this before?
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
>
>