Title: France Telecom's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-dubois-bgp-planned-maintenance-00
Received: 28 July 2004
From: RAES Serge RD-PIV-ISS <serge.raes@francetelecom.com>

This is to inform the IETF that France Telecom is seeking patent protection on 
some or all of the technology described in document http://www.ietf.org/
internet-drafts/draft-dubois-bgp-planned-maintenance-00.txt.

If any part of this document is adopted as a standard, in the event that 
France Telecom is granted a patent or patents essential its implementation, 
France Telecom is prepared to grant, on the basis of reciprocity (grant-back) 
whenever applicable, a license on such included part(s) on reasonable, 
non-discriminatory terms and conditions.

Other reasonable conditions may also apply as contained in France Telecom's 
General IPR Statement found at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/FRANCE-TELECOM.txt 
and updated from time to time.

Any questions related to this statement may be addressed to :

France Telecom
R&D/PIV/PI Attn. Mr. Serge RAES
38-40, rue du General Leclerc
F-92794 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9
France
mailto : serge.raes@francetelecom.com
Tel: +33 1 4529 6007
Fax: +33 1 4529 6560

A copy of this letter is sent by e-mail to the IETF secretary at ietf-ipr@ietf.org

Best regards,

Serge RAES,
Intellectual Property and Standards Manager