[logs] SYSLOG patent?

[Rainer Gerhards]

To get to the meat of this: the question is if somebody with a big legal
team is taking action against it... there seems to be far enough prior
art, plus that the idea is basically stolen from IETF discussions (at
least I described more than once how to use an invalid header...).
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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