Re: SYSLOG patent?

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> To get to the meat of this: the question is if somebody with a big legal
> team is taking action against it... there seems to be far enough prior
> art, plus that the idea is basically stolen from IETF discussions (at
> least I described more than once how to use an invalid header...).
> Rainer

Maybe worth contacting Red Hat legal -- I assume they are planning to
pull in rsyslog as the default syslog for RHEL6 ... although perhaps
their European presence isn't as large as SuSE.

I'm guessing Red Hat would definitely have an interest though?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:loganalysis-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 5:22 PM
> > To: Stefano Zanero
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [logs] SYSLOG patent?
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:18 +0100, Stefano Zanero wrote:
> > > A Ananth wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > European Patent EP1881668 published on 01/23/2008 is
> > > > entitled "THE METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR
> > > > TRANSFERRING SYSLOG MESSAGE" and assigned to Huawei
> > >
> > > > Anyone care to comment on the implications?
> > >
> > > It seems to me that the "invention" is "let's add a signal which
> > > automatically makes the syslog receiver switch to a secure channel".
> > >
> > > Am I reading it wrong ?
> > >
> > 
> > I'd describe it as a STARTTLS for syslog. Although not directly
> > specified in the IETF RFC drafts, this is trivial.
> > 
> > EPO should not have accepted that. STARTTLS is specified in a wide
> > variety of other protocols (pop3, imap, ldap, etc...)
> > 
> > --
> > Bazsi