Title: Nortel Networks Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-bfd-base
Received: 6 January 2005
From: mleelaw@nortelnetworks.com

Dear Sir,

Nortel Networks Limited has an unpublished patent application relating to at
least a portion of this IETF Internet Draft:

Title: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection draft-ietf-bfd-base-00.txt
Tag: draft-ietf-bfd-base-00.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bfd-base-00.txt
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bfd-base-00.txt>

In the event that this patent application of Nortel Networks issues, and the
issued patent contains claims that are necessary for practicing a resulting
IETF Standard based on this Internet Draft, Nortel Networks will make
available licenses under fair, reasonable, reciprocal, and
non-discriminatory terms to such claims it owns for the purpose of complying
with such IETF Standard.

My contact information is set out below.

Kind Regards,
Michelle Lee
Counsel, IP Law
Nortel Networks Limited
8200 Dixie Road, Ste 100 GMS 036/NO/151
Brampton, Ontario Canada L6T 5P6
Tel: 905-863-1148 (ESN 333)
Fax: 905-863-8431 (ESN 333)

Email: mleelaw@nortelnetworks.com