Subject: Patent encumbered standards are unacceptable

From: Gene Hightower <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:09:14 -0800

The Internet has flourished, in part, due to it's open nature.

Patent encumbered standards threaten that nature.

Please do not approve any standard that includes patented technology
unless the patent holder issues a royalty free license to all.