Received April 22, 2002 From: "Robert Barr" Cisco has a pending patent application relating to the subject matter of draft-wu-rgmp-01.txt, "Router-port Group Management Protocol". If this document is published by the IETF secretariat as an Informational RFC and any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for implementing that RFC, any party will be able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the RFC. Robert Barr Patent Counsel Cisco Systems 408-525-9706