[171207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Tue Apr 22 11:07:53 2014
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:07:16 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <53565C2F.9010304@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> [2014-04-22 15:33]:
> 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.
it is academic, indeed.
I was involved with carp's creation, we did all the work to make sure
it just avoids being covered by the patent. and that included getting
legal advice.
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