Received July 1, 2002
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>

Cisco has at least one pending patent application relating to the
subject matter of draft-vasseur-mpls-backup-computation-00.txt,
"MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast reroute: backup tunnel path computation 
for bandwidth protection" . If a standard relating to this subject 
matter is adopted by IETF and any claims of any issued Cisco patents 
are necessary for practicing this standard, any party will be able to 
obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under openly 
specified, 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