BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

Thu Aug 12 13:37:26 UTC 2004

Well if it will harm the community, would it be
possible to auto copyright rfc's, so that the authors
of a concept can prevent someone from sipping their
effort off? 

Ignorance at the top doesn't mean we can't be like
always leading the way......

-Henry

--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve at telecomplete.co.uk>
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?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 