Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-07.txt
Received: May 28, 2003
From: Robert Barr  <rbarr@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of US patent No. 5 473 599, relating to the subject
matter of "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol"
<draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-07.txt>. If technology in this document is
included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of this or any
other Cisco patent are necessary for practicing the standard, any party
will be able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent
claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms to implement and fully
comply with the standard. 

For information contact: 

Robert Barr 
Worldwide Patent Counsel 
Cisco Systems 
408-525-9706 
rbarr@cisco.com