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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: Re: referencing ISIS's existence
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Date: 19 Oct 89 13:31:47 GMT
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In article <89Oct16.161931edt.19283@me.utoronto.ca>
           fil@me.utoronto.ca (Filippo Salustri) writes:
> I believe the correct name is the "ISIS Toolkit"; but who has the trademark?

	This is correct.  As an academic project we didn't obtain a
	trademark -- we don't really need that form of protection.
        The name ISIS (as opposed to the ISIS Toolkit) is a trademark of
        Intel and is used for one of their operating systems.  Fortunately,
        Intel doesn't market an ISIS Toolkit, so you don't need to cite their
        trademark when you discuss our system.

>	Also, the actual reference I plan to use is words to the effect of:
>
>	"... The {\sc Isis} system is capable of distributing computing tasks
>	among several host computers and providing a high-level interface
>	for application programmers...."
>
>	Any comments?

Sounds fine to me.  We usually mumble about building "robust distributed
systems in which component programs cooperate with each other to manage
replicated data, subdivide computing tasks, and dynamically reconfigure
after failures or recoveries."  

Ken Birman