In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking

[Eric S. Raymond]

Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>:
> Um, turn on *your* brain, and read Patent 6,101,499. If I remember right,
> Chesire even acknowledge's MS's claims in some of the IETF drafts.  
> Link-local address configuration has patent claims. The mDNS code has
> trademark issues. About the only working part of Zeroconf available for
> Linux without issues AFAIK is OpenSLP, and there's no point in shipping that
> by itself....

I'm on the phone with Cheshire now.  We're looking at the patent.  He 
doesn't believe that it either covers the mDNS technique or is enforceable,
and will write a more detailed response to this list.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>