[logs] SYSLOG patent?

[Bill Scherr IV]

I am wondering where this fits in to the whole 3com debacle???

Does Mitt Romney (Bain Capital) intend to show that Huawei is an innovator, 
and thus subject to "Most Favored Nation" Status?  

Can anyone imagine a more foul and noxious load of $#!*

B.

Circa 17:22, 14 Mar 2008, a note, claiming source Balazs Scheidler 
<bazsi at balabit.hu>, was sent to me:

Subject:        	Re: [logs] SYSLOG patent?
From:           	Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
To:             	Stefano Zanero <zanero at elet.polimi.it>
Date sent:      	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:22:05 +0100
Copies to:      	loganalysis at loganalysis.org

> 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...)
> 
> -- 
> Bazsi
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Bill Scherr IV, GSEC, GCIA
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