Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > --On fredag, april 25, 2003 02:47:35 -0400 Tulip Rasputin > <tulip_rasputin@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Have there been any patents filed in the field of routing/routing > > protocols? > > Yes. > http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ allows you to search on "Routing > AND protocol", > and tells you that you have 14604 hits :-( > > > > > I am a little confused because we have IETF standards (drafts and > > RFCs)for routing. Is there a rule which says that one cant file > > patents in routing or something? > > No. And the lack of such a rule is not making life in the > IETF any easier. Harald, While that is correct, he probably needs a pointer to: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt?number=2026 section 10. Tony