Subject: NO! IETF patent-encumbered standard

From: JS <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:56:05 -0600

Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers
according to standards that define common languages.  If we are going to
live in a free world using free software,  our software must be allowed
to speak these languages.

We must not allow any one person, small business or Corporation to own  
standards of common language. Imagine if someone owned the Hyperlink  
protocol? Imagine if someone owned the universal resource locator  
protocol?

We must keep Internet and the world wide web open and free.

Anything less and its just digital TV.

yours in free and open expression,
John Summers
Princeton, Indiana