Re: RFC 3929 on Alternative Decision Making Processes for Consens us-Blocked Decisions in the IETF (fwd)

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:52:20PM +0200,
 Markus Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 21 lines which said:

> But the last two days (german) IT news are fill with press reports
> that MS will loosen the patent policy

I do not think that Microsoft announced anything concrete on the
patent front. Does anyone has a reference?

> ... and that the IETF is now supporting Sender-Id? 

This is certainly false. IETF supports nothing since the disbanding of
the MARID Working Group (the new Microsoft Internet-Draft has not even
been published by IETF, probably because it was submitted after the
cutoff - http://www.ietf.org/meetings/cutoff_dates_61.html).