Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-bfd-mpls-bfd-00
Received: 6 July 2004
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of one or more pending patent application relating to the
subject matter of "Using Bi-Directional Forwarding Indication as a Fault
Detection Mechanism for MPLS LSPs" <draft-ietf-bfd-mpls-bfd-00.txt>. If
technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and
any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard,
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 standard.

For information contact:

Robert Barr
Worldwide Patent Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-525-9706
rbarr@cisco.com