Re: Help with Apple's SSM IPR claim

[Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>]

>Yes.  One point made explicitly in the IPR working group is that WGs 
>can decline to adopt encumbered technology

Unfortunately, the IPR seems to cover the basic concept of SSM
(well, my reading is that it only covers the first four hops, or
the first two hops if typos can invalidate claims, but that's not
important since I am not a lawyer or a judge).

The choice in this case is probably to work out the IPR issues or
disband the working group.

  Bill