[171200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Apr 22 08:11:46 2014
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:10:23 +0200
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140422103133.GL18864@quigon.bsws.de>
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On 22/04/2014 12:31, Henning Brauer wrote:
> it does NOT cover carp, not at all.
that is a political statement rather than a legal opinion. If you read the
patent, it's pretty obvious that when you have a group of carp-enabled
devices providing a stable gateway IP address, and these devices are
routing traffic received via the carp published address, this configuration
provides the same functionality that's described in the patent claims.
This hasn't been tested in court and neither of us is a lawyer and the
patent seems to have expired, so it's academic at this stage.
Nick
