RE: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
John O'Hara wrote: > On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a > requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. Yes *early* IETF standards were clean, but they are supposed to be the guardians of the I in IETF, and have been delinquent by allowing IP constrain

Re: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread John O'Hara
On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. On 07/06/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) > encumbered standards

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 6/7/07, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we should create a set of APIs that offer genuinely open access > to messaging systems on .NET, Java, C, C# etc. Of course if Sun wished > to offer us the JMS API under an unencumbere

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) > encumbered standards now. So, even implementing IETF standards > is now dangerous. The IETF has lost a lot of credibility as an independent standards body, and really ought to be ashamed. But they are har

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
AIUI, the legality of Sun's specification licenses is considered dubious. Not that dubious defines a stance or action, just a note. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> AMQP itself was designed mostly based on IETF concepts which are >> unencumbered (like smtp, nntp, nfs). > > This is not true going forward as the IETF specifically permits (and, > some may say, encourages) encumbered

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AMQP itself was designed mostly based on IETF concepts which are unencumbered (like smtp, nntp, nfs). This is not true going forward as the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) encumbered standards now. So, even implementin

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bingo. Nicely explained. I'm glad someone else sees the problem. We need to keep our software 100% clean; its amazing how much IP law you need to know to write code and give it away. Which is why the generic form API for AMQP should be derived

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe we should create a set of APIs that offer genuinely open access to messaging systems on .NET, Java, C, C# etc. Of course if Sun wished to offer us the JMS API under an unencumbered license we could do that, otherwise we could start from s

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiram > I guess you are referring to the license to that allows a person to > hold a copy of the JMS spec. I wonder if violating/terminating the > that license IP taints any work created using Ideas obtain from it. > Since this seems to be i

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is NMS? NMS is a .NET version of JMS. Not quite. Its a .Net Messaging API to the various MOMs available on the .Net platform such as MSMQ, TibCo, MQSeries together with new implementations such as for ActiveMQ and Stomp. Its just as si

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 07 June 2007 21:34, Paul Fremantle wrote: > > Since this seems to be in the Idea category... I would have thought > > that there would need some patents in place to enforce it. > > Not really. Once you agree to a contract (like that license) its > simply contract law, AFAIK. Nitpicking

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
Maybe we should create a set of APIs that offer genuinely open access to messaging systems on .NET, Java, C, C# etc. Of course if Sun wished to offer us the JMS API under an unencumbered license we could do that, otherwise we could start from scratch. This Apache Messaging API could then be freel

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread John O'Hara
Bingo. Nicely explained. I'm glad someone else sees the problem. We need to keep our software 100% clean; its amazing how much IP law you need to know to write code and give it away. Which is why the generic form API for AMQP should be derived from AMQP, not JMS. AMQP itself was designed most

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Barnett
om: Paul Fremantle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:35 AM To: Hiram Chirino Cc: general@incubator.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NMS Hiram > I guess you are referring to the license to that allows a person to > hold a copy of the JMS spe

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
Hiram I guess you are referring to the license to that allows a person to hold a copy of the JMS spec. I wonder if violating/terminating the that license IP taints any work created using Ideas obtain from it. Since this seems to be in the Idea category... I would have thought that there would

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Hiram Chirino
On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiram I'm not sure about whether Sun has relevant patents on the JMS APIs. Howver, there are two things that may have been violated. Firstly, the license agreement that was "clicked-through" whenever someone looked I guess you are referring

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
what is NMS? NMS is a .NET version of JMS. In other words an API that allows .NET clients to interact with a messaging server, especially one that follows the same semantics as JMS (i.e. a JMS server like Apache ActiveMQ) what is the NMS API? Same as above. who specficies it? NMS has been

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
Hiram I'm not sure about whether Sun has relevant patents on the JMS APIs. Howver, there are two things that may have been violated. Firstly, the license agreement that was "clicked-through" whenever someone looked at the JMS specification. Secondly the JMS copyright. Since, as far as I can see,

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 6/7/07, Hiram Chirino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ceased use of and destroyed my copy of the Specification years ago =) But seriously, what kind of IP is it that is being violated? copyright? patent? or some other kind that I'm not aware of? what is NMS? what is the NMS API? who specfici

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Hiram Chirino
I ceased use of and destroyed my copy of the Specification years ago =) But seriously, what kind of IP is it that is being violated? copyright? patent? or some other kind that I'm not aware of? Regards, Hiram On 6/1/07, Arnaud Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, We have been thinking abou

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Fremantle
NMS is something that the Apache ActiveMQ team have done. http://activemq.apache.org/nms/ Whether we are in violation of the Sun licenses is a fine question. Paul On 6/6/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: which standards body created NMS? - robert On 6/1/07, Carl Trieloff <

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Fremantle
Unfortunately IBM licenses Sun technology under a different set of rules, meaning that you cannot be sure that the IBM did not get an exclusion to the license. Paul On 6/1/07, Colin Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In case you've not seen this, IBM have long since rendered the JMS API into C++

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
which standards body created NMS? - robert On 6/1/07, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Coping incubator general and apache legal lists on this thread for additional comments on this topic. Carl. John O'Hara wrote: > Yes, IBM are I fully paid up licensee of Java technology - and can do

Re: NMS

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
Coping incubator general and apache legal lists on this thread for additional comments on this topic. Carl. John O'Hara wrote: Yes, IBM are I fully paid up licensee of Java technology - and can do whatever they like with it. I asked permission of IBM if we could implement the XMS API some ti

RE: NMS

2007-06-01 Thread Colin Crist
In case you've not seen this, IBM have long since rendered the JMS API into C++, C and C# http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0509_philli ps/0509_phillips.html Colin. > -Original Message- > From: Arnaud Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 June 2007 1