Title:  Cisco's Statement of IPR related to draft-rosen-idr-aigp-00.txt
Date:  Tuesday, June 30th 2009
Submitter:  Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com>


Cisco is the owner of US Published Patent Application 20060256724 relating to the subject matter 
of "The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP" <draft-rosen-idr-aigp-00.txt>.

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
Director, Intellectual Property
Cisco Systems
+1 408-526-6672
standards-ipr@cisco.com