[171576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue May 6 14:05:26 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
In-Reply-To: <535C1D57.2040506@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:19:12 -0700
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Apr 26, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> the situation was created by the openbsd team, not the ieee, the ietf =
or
> iana. You squatted on an existing oui assignment used by an =
equivalent
> protocol and in doing this, you created a long term problem with no
> possible solution other than to change carp to use its own dedicated =
range
> instead of someone else's.
>=20
> You had every choice in the world about what range to use and even if =
you
> didn't have the $2500 at the time to register a perpetual OUI =
assignment,
> almost any other OUI in existence would have been less detrimental to =
users
> than the one you chose.
>=20
> The openbsd foundation raised $153,000 this year. Why not invest =
$2500 of
> this and fix the problem?
Sorry this is late=85
Might I suggest an even simpler and cheaper solution? Cisco has widely =
and repeatedly claimed that they will only use their patents =
defensively. Why not have someone on behalf of *BSD simply write them a =
letter/email requesting a royalty-free license to the patent for use in =
*BSD? Play up the non-profit and non-competitive angles. If they =
agree, then you can freely implement HSRP or VRRP directly. If they =
refuse, then you=92re no worse off than you were before.
The guy with his name on the patent,
Tony
