The following was received on November 22, 1999 From: Chip Sharp To: scoya@ietf.org Subject: Cisco's IPR disclosure statement pertaining to megaco Cisco has a patent pending that may relate to the work underway in the megaco working group, specifically to the work derived from draft-ietf-megaco-protocol-04.txt. Upon approval by the IESG of the relevant Internet standards track specification and if any patents issue to Cisco or its subsidiaries with claims that are necessary for practicing this 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 specification(s) under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms. Requests may be sent to: Robert Barr 300 East Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 USA phone: +1 (408) 525 9706 email: rbarr@cisco.com