Subject: RE: T-shirts and other Tao questions

From: Burke Chris-CCB007 <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:43:34 -0500

Susan,
Is that a metaphysical question or a practical one?
IPR = Intellectual Property Rights, practically (patents, trademarks,
copyrights, etc.)
Metaphysically, it's a rather complex dialectic....
Chris Burke

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Susan R. Harris [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent:	Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:35 AM
To:	Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
Cc:	USWG; [email-masked]
Subject:	Re: T-shirts and other Tao questions 

> <enter quasi-humor mode> I think it would be a tragedy of the highest
> order to lose the stiring words of the notice composed by the
> unofficial T-Shirt BOF which neatly ties together IETF IPR problems
							 ^^^
        					     What is IPR?

> and its rough consensus and running code motto.  Already the original
> text has been lost due to the dastardly theft of its sole electronic
> form.  Even so, we must preserve its essense in the best paraphrase we
> can compose.  Inclusion of this one exceptional case is not "a running
> commentary of each meeting's t-shirts" but is rather the exception
> that proves the rules that you shouldn't include such descriptions.
> <end quasi-humor mode>