BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

Fri Aug 13 08:43:29 UTC 2004

At 01:41 PM 12-08-04 +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox 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?

No.  This should be the future for patent hijacks:
http://freepatentsonline.com/6293874.html

-Hank

>Steve