[73124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Fri Aug 13 04:44:41 2004
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:43:29 +0300
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408121338470.31264-100000@server2.tcw.telec
omplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 01:41 PM 12-08-04 +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox 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?
No. This should be the future for patent hijacks:
http://freepatentsonline.com/6293874.html
-Hank
>Steve
