Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

[Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>]

ok so then in the copyright let us see if can cover
all variations of the original concept as belonging to
the original author or author's as a test case for
adaption and modificaiton to copyright law. I strongly
believe in the protection of original idea's in
reference to rfc's 

-Henry




--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
wrote:

> one issue with that might be that the patents are
> taken out on variations of the 
> core idea, imho the variations are not new ideas but
> legally they seem to get 
> away with it
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Henry Linneweh wrote:
>
> > 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 () 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