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

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

sorry cant find a really good link, this is what BT have been doing in the UK 
for a couple months:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5158457/

In answer to the critics, what an ISP chooses to do with its traffic
*internally* is up to the ISP, and bear in mind you are not suggesting the scope
of the service is anything more than an ISPs own network. This is not IP 
hijacking by any means, more like transparent caching and blacklisting.

Steve

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do with 
> blackholing.  A brief description of the way it works can be found here:
>
> http://www.scamslam.com/ScamSlam/whatis.shtml
>
> We have not disclosed the site address to the "public" at this stage, the 
> text of the site is only draft form for the purposes of editing and needs 
> to be "polished".  Perhaps the article wasn't as articulate in conveying 
> this, but I'm sure you appreciate journalists sometimes don't get it right :)
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Bevan Slattery
> PIPE Networks
>
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