Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-13
Date: 22 January 2007 17:29:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of one or more pending unpublished patent applications 
relating to the subject matter of "Interactive Connectivity Establishment 
(ICE): A Methodology for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for 
Offer/Answer Protocols" <draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-13>.

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.

The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are:

If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or controlled 
by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing or offering for 
sale a product that implements the standard, provided, however that Cisco retains 
the right to assert its patents (including the right to claim past royalties) 
against any party that asserts a patent it owns or controls (either directly or 
indirectly) against Cisco or any of Cisco's affiliates or successors in title or 
against any products of Cisco or any products of any of Cisco's affiliates either 
alone or in combination with other products; and Cisco retains the right to assert 
its patents against any product or portion thereof that is not necessary for compliance 
with the standard.

Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option.

For information contact:

Dan Lang
Senior IP Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-526-6672
standards-ipr@cisco.com