Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in RFC 3488
Date: 	30 July 2008 
From: 	Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of US Patent Nos. 6,847,638 and 7,385,977 relating 
to the subject matter of Request for Comments (RFC) 3488 "Cisco Systems 
Router-port Group Management Protocol (RGMP)."

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