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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:20:23 JST Evan Prodromou

   • bryan newbold
   • Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @amd @cwebber @bnewbold I don't know.

   I wish that Bluesky would publish an open, royalty-free patent license on AT so this wasn't a problem for anyone else in the space.

   In the open standards world, we typically only consider work from other open standards, specifically for this reason. So, basing a W3C spec on an IETF RFC.

   So my experience here is slim.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:24:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bryan newbold
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @amd @cwebber @bnewbold my understanding is that AT Proto is significantly different enough from ActivityPub in its architecture that it's unlikely we'll stumble across some technique it uses by mistake.

     So I think it's a better idea to just steer clear and follow our own path.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:29:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bryan newbold
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @amd @cwebber @bnewbold Brian is in the SocialCG at W3C, so if he thinks some ideas from AT should be used by others, he has the opportunity to publish them as CG reports. These are an extremely lightweight way to give assurance to the community.

     https://www.w3.org/community/reports/reqs/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:44:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bryan newbold
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @amd @cwebber @bnewbold I think we can assume that if he doesn't submit those techniques, the company is not interested in sharing them.