Received November 4, 2002
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>

Cisco has a pending patent application relating to the subject matter of
draft-vasseur-mpls-linknode-failure-00.txt, "Distinguish a link from a node
failure using RSVP Hellos extensions". 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 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