[logs] SYSLOG patent?

[Rainer Gerhards]

I intended not to get angry about that junk patent again... but... The
problem, as usual, is it's broad scope. Depending on what "similar
methods" are, rsyslog's compressed record transmission mode may also be
now patented by Huwaii. It uses an invalid syslog header to indicate
compression on a per-message level... oops, no, no wrong... When
supporting compressed messages, it doesn't use syslog protocol at all
but instead a proprietary protocol whose first byte means: "<" - this is
a syslog message and "z" - this is a compressed message...

What a mess...

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: loganalysis-bounces at loganalysis.org [mailto:loganalysis-
> bounces at loganalysis.org] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 5:22 PM
> To: Stefano Zanero
> Cc: loganalysis at loganalysis.org
> Subject: Re: [logs] SYSLOG patent?
> 
> 
> 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
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