[73088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Thu Aug 12 09:38:01 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:37:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408121338470.31264-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Well if it will harm the community, would it be
possible to auto copyright rfc's, so that the authors
of a concept can prevent someone from sipping their
effort off?
Ignorance at the top doesn't mean we can't be like
always leading the way......
-Henry
--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> > We have had running code for this since early this
> year, so depending on the
> > date they filed, prior art exists well documented.
> (blueprints obviously
> > predate running code)
>
> everyone has gone patent crazy, every time a new
> concept is developed some
> company applies for patent. is this the future or
> rfcs then?
>
> Steve
>
>
