Re: [Syslog] Draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-01.txt

[Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 13:25 -0400, David B Harrington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As co-chair it is my responsibility to make the WG aware that there
> has been a disclosure that an unpublished pending patent application
> might be infringed by the implementation of the specifications in
> draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-01.txt.
> 
> The disclosure can be found at
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=717.
> 
> David Harrington
> dharrington at huawei.com 
> dbharrington at comcast.net
> ietfdbh at comcast.net
> co-chair, Syslog WG 

This is insane. I just tried google to search for syslog-ng and stunnel,
I got 89000 result pages, the contents most probably describing how to
combine syslog-ng and TLS, e.g. transfer syslog messages on a TLS
encrypted channel

I would call that prior art, although the details of the patent is to be
seen, but I am not happy. I might even choose not to interoperate with
the protocol specified here with syslog-ng.

Puzzled.

-- 
Bazsi


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