Re: [ssm] SSM and IPR

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bill Fenner wrote:
> >Just browsing the IPR archive I noted Apple claiming possible IPR on 
> >draft-ietf-ssm-arch-02:
> >
> >http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/APPLE-SSM.txt
> >
> >Anyone looked at that?
> 
> Of course, a judge's interpretation is the only one that matters, but
> my reading of the claims is that several of them could apply to SSM.
> (It may apply to only 4-hop networks, and there's a typo in claim 3
> which may invalidate claims 3 and 4 meaning that it would only apply
> to 2-hop networks, but those are way too subtle calls for a non-lawyer
> to make).
> 
> (Claims 5-17 don't seem to me to apply to SSM, since they all involve
> the sender explicitly requesting something from the network)

As a matter of fact, most claims seem to mainly cover unicast-prefix 
-based addressing.  I could also see multicast address assignment 
protocols impacted.  I'm unsure of the SSM-specific claims as I fail to 
see them mention the use of the source address as an identifier.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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