Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-bryant-shand-lf-applicability-00.txt Date: 7 July 2005 From: Dan Lang<dlang@cisco.com> Cisco is the owner of US published patent application 20050078610 and 20050078656 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of "Applicability of Loop-free Convergence" <draft-bryant-shand-lf-applicability-00.txt>. If any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for implementing this specification, any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the specification For information contact: Dan Lang Senior IP Counsel Cisco Systems 408-526-6672 dlang@cisco.com