[At-Large] Verisign files a patent on domain transfers

Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 21:21:36 UTC 2012


Dear All,

Here's a recent write-up from Chris of  Red Nectar:
http://rednectar.net/2012/10/09/a-patent-on-dnssec-domains-is-this-the-end-of-the-free-internet/

Kind Regards,

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Carlton Samuels
<carlton.samuels at gmail.com>wrote:

> Um, well, actually this ain't the first with respect to the DNS.
>
> Sadly enough, while we have a long - and recorded - history of domain name
> transfer discussions, I can't recall seeing a single process to do it
> outlined.
>
> And FWIW, awarding patents to processes is now well embedded in US patent
> application procedures and accorded in law.
>
> All we can do is hope that in the record of discussions, enough pieces of
> 'process' were laid out to to convince the PTO these guys are copycats.
>
> A take off point for the discussion has to be 'who benefits'? Look at the
> amount of data the process forces capture!
>
> Apropos a BBC report I heard this morning at 3a, makes me think how
> unfortunate for Huawei that it is incorporated in China, the poor benighted
> bastards!  Were they true blue and raised 'East, West, North and South of
> the Pecos', why, .....
>
> ..and especially when we are constantly being asked to believe, purely on
> one hand, that our 'blood and state are shadows, not substantial
> things'....
>
> ...you feel the hand of Esau even as you hear the voice of Jacob....
>
> - Carlton
>
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>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz at thur.de> wrote:
>
> > How can we proceed, if fundamental operations in the DNS System are
> > patented?
> >
> > http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/verisign-dnssec.pdf
> >
> > Of course there is prior art, i.e.
> >
> http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/Resilience-and-CIIP/networks-and-services-resilience/dnssec/gpgdnssec
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