Received January 29, 2003
From: Albin.Schaetzle@alcatel.de

Alcatel has a pending patent application, which might become relevant for
the draft <draft-yacine-ppvpn2547-pib-01.txt> BGP/MPLS VPN Policy
Information Base. Alcatel is prepared to give a license under the
conditions of Alcatel's general License statement
(http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/ALCATEL-GENERAL).

For any questions on this matter, please contact:




Albin Schätzle Tel.: + 49 (0) 711 821 44525
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821 44587
Intellectual Property Department
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