OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

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  • 1.  Re: [xacml] patent

    Posted 01-04-2002 13:21
    As I recollect, OASIS requested us to evaluate whether any XACML
    specification might fall in the scope of patents held by others.
    I quote from a Dec 13th addition to announcements regarding Xerox's
    XrML:
    (http://xml.coverpages.org/xrml.html) :
    "ContentGuard's strategy appears to be to make money by licensing the
    technology -- whatever some outside body defines it to be. It can do
    this because its patents cover the idea of a rights language in general, no
    matter what the specifics of the language are".
    
    I know XrML  has already been mentioned in our discussions from the
    technical point of view, but the wording of this announcements makes me
    suspect that we should explore the matter further from the patents'
    point of view.
    Rgds
    Ernesto
    
    Prof. Ernesto Damiani
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