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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream)
Date: 1999/12/02
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In article <3845FE4E.E54C9EEE@research.canon.com.au>,
  Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote:
> Kenneth Almquist wrote:
> >
> > The allegedly novel idea is to write the data in a
> > cannonical format, making it unnecessary to run conversion programs
> > when moving files or file systems.
>
> Not quite, as that would involve magic!
> I read it that the patent claims as novel the idea of
> transmitting data in a canonical format, so that the
> sender doesn't need to know the binary representation
> required by the receiver.
>
> This patent would cover any program that, for example,
> exchanges data in standard "network" order.
>
> As I said, I think XDR predates it, can anybody verify that?

The first edition ISO ASN.1 standard I have at my desk is dated 1987,
which places it 3 years before the patent was supposedly granted. (ISO
8824:1987(E) and 8825:1987(E))

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