Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-bryant-shand-lf-applicability-00.txt Date: 7 July 2005 From: Dan Lang Cisco is the owner of US published patent application 20050078610 and 20050078656 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of "Applicability of Loop-free Convergence" . If any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for implementing this specification, any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the specification For information contact: Dan Lang Senior IP Counsel Cisco Systems 408-526-6672 dlang@cisco.com