The following was received on March 2, 1999 from Andy Valencia (vandys@cisco.com) Cisco has a patent pending that may relate to this proposed standard. If this proposed standard is adopted by IETF and 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 Suite 280 2882 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park Ca 94025 Phone: 650-926-6205 Note: On July 30, 1999, we were informed that the patent office had assigned the number 5,918,019 for the patent