Received May 30, 2001 From: Tom Gindin IBM has submitted patent applications in a technology area that may be employed by the PKIX working group in developing its final specifications. The technology area relates to the use of certificateHold for Non-Repudiation. This may prove relevant to some parts of the draft-ietf-pkix-ocspv2-02.txt and to some parts of draft-ietf-pkix-new-part1-06.txt. IBM is unable to provide more specific information regarding the application, until such time as the application is published or the patent is issued. IBM, in support of IETF intellectual property rights procedures, is willing to offer non-exclusive licenses to issued patents, upon written request, under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, in accordance with IBM's usual licensing practices, when there is a necessary dependence upon these IBM patents to implement PKIX specifications. Tom Gindin