[logs] SYSLOG patent?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:18 +0100, Stefano Zanero wrote:
> A Ananth wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > European Patent EP1881668 published on 01/23/2008 is
> > entitled "THE METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR
> > TRANSFERRING SYSLOG MESSAGE" and assigned to Huawei
> 
> > Anyone care to comment on the implications?
> 
> It seems to me that the "invention" is "let's add a signal which 
> automatically makes the syslog receiver switch to a secure channel".
> 
> Am I reading it wrong ?
> 

I'd describe it as a STARTTLS for syslog. Although not directly
specified in the IETF RFC drafts, this is trivial.

EPO should not have accepted that. STARTTLS is specified in a wide
variety of other protocols (pop3, imap, ldap, etc...)

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Bazsi