RE: SYSLOG patent?

Sounds like something to approach the EFF's patent-busting team about:

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=361
http://w2.eff.org/patent/


On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:22 +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
> 
> > -----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...)
> > 
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