Re: [idn] Link to the Walid patent

[Adonis El Fakih <adonis@ayna.com>]

Thanks for the link.

The information presented in the patent is explained very nicely, but my question to fellow IDN members is this. In what context are we looking at the Walid patent??  Walid patent assumes that each client machine has to do the work before it calls a server with mulitlingual name.  I personally do not see this approach as being a doable thing.  There are far more client machines and a variety of OSes that will make it impossible to get this patented approach to work.  Not to mention that any open source code will be stuck if it has to rely on this technology.  Too many legal loop holes, and special interest groups, have to adopt Walid's patent, and I doubt Microsoft, and the Unix OS developers will all use this, becuase of the legalities involved.

I feel a server side implementation is more appropriate for the long run, and to my understanding there are companies that already have technologies that do similar transformations and will work for international user, by simply setting up root servers that will resolve those names, and in worst case senario, the client has to set the networking of their machine to query a name server that can convert the translated string.

So again I do not see why we are discussing Walid's patent??  Even if we have a majority of people here feel that it is a great technology, no one is gong to fork a penny to Walid unless there is no other way of doing the same thing for free.  And the fact that oher companies already resolve multilingual domains shows that other options do exist.

I would appretiate any input from fellow members about this specific discussion, and what does Walid expect from IETF??

Best regards
Adonis
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shaunm@mahjongplayer.com كتب:

> Here is a link to Walid patent # 6182148: 
 
http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__ 
 
Hope this helps.   
 
Shaun 


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