Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-07.txt Received: May 28, 2003 From: Robert Barr Cisco is the owner of US patent No. 5 473 599, relating to the subject matter of "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol" . 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