If WSDL doesn't qualify as low-level infrastructure, this is hopeless from Mark Wutka on 2001-10-04 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Mark Wutka <mark@wutka.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:03:55 -0400
To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Message-ID: <005401c14cfe$f5f45840$71da000a@harland.net>

I would think that a standard for describing network services would qualify
as low-level infrastructure. Why isn't WSDL royalty-free?  How could anyone
be confident that W3C will continue to make useful specifications that are
unencumbered by royalties after you have already doomed web services?

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2001 14:04:58 UTC