Re: [idn] Alternative Solutions

["Sean X. Zhang" <sean_xzhang@yahoo.com>]

Are you saying that the content of the APNG's idns webpage has not
changed since 1998?!

--- Tan Tin Wee <tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg> wrote:
> Speaking personally, I  think these aspects of the patent discussed
> below as being covered by WALID Patent already constitutes prior art,
> which the APNG commissioned the IDNS project back in 1998,
[...]
> I don't understand the USPTO!
> 

Keith may have said it all.

--- Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> in the IETF community it has been clear for many years that DNS was
> intended to be 8-bit clean, so for us the interpretation of RFC 1035
> is clear.  
> 
> the interpretation may not be so "clear" (or it may be "clear" in a 
> different way) to a court.  just like what is "obvious" to a person
> experienced in Internet applications protocols  (and which therfore
> should not be patentable) is not "obvious" to a patent examiner.
> 
...

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