The following was recevied on July 26, 2000 From: George Rethy Dear Sirs: This letter affirms Neteka Inc.^Òs (Neteka) position with respect to patents associated with its DNSII multilingual domain name protocol as regards IETF standards. Neteka plans to submit the DNSII protocol and other elements of multilingual domain name server software to the IETF for standardization or other review and comment. Neteka has applied for one or more patents on the technology related to multilingual domain name server software and multilingual email transport agent software. If a standard is adopted by IETF and any patents are issued to Neteka with claims that are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will be able to obtain the right to implement, use and distribute the technology or works when implementing, using or distributing technology based upon the specific specifications(s) under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Requests may be sent to: George Rethy Neteka Inc. rethy@neteka.com Tel: 416-484-4277 Fax: 416-483-9405