Free Internet Protocol

Details: Free Internet Protocol

The Free Internet Protocol movement involves an organization called Free Protocols Foundation which believes that having patented components within a protocol is undesirable. According to the Free Protocols Foundation, a protocol’s purpose is to provide a common ground for cooperation through agreed-upon behaviors and that patents within a protocol restricts how the protocol can be implemented and used, thus defeating the protocol’s purpose. Much like the open-source movement, the Free Protocols Foundation is dedicated to creating, promoting, and maintaining access – in this case to patent-free protocols such as a free Internet protocol. Currently the foundation maintains a list of four protocols, one of which can be considered a free Internet protocol. The protocols currently supported include LEAP (Lightweight & Efficient Application Protocol), ESRO (Efficient Short Remote Protocol, EMSD (Efficient Mail Submission & Delivery Protocol), and EHTD (Efficient HyperText Delivery), a work in progress that appears to be a free Internet protocol. Internet protocols, whether the protocol is a free Internet protocol or not, are used to allow internetworked computers to understand how to communicate with one another. Computers need to understand which language and standard conventions are used in a given exchange in order to respond appropriately.

Associated Free Internet Protocol Applications:

Web browsers, email clients

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