Re: IBM patents tunneling HTTP through another protocal
David W. Morris (dwm@xpasc.com)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John C. Mallery wrote:
> Note that on the Mac, we have been running HTTP over AppleTalk since
> 1995 with CL-HTTP.
Is that anything more than substituting AppleTalk for TCP/IP? An ability
which some members of this WG have long insisted on maintaining. I
wouldn't consider that quite the same. I haven't managed to decode the
IBM patent yet so I haven't a clue as to whether it represented something
new when it was filed in 1995. Nor do I have any idea how broad the
impact would be.
Dave Morris