Received July 1, 2002 From: Robert Barr Cisco has at least one pending patent application relating to the subject matter of draft-vasseur-mpls-backup-computation-00.txt, "MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast reroute: backup tunnel path computation for bandwidth protection" . If a standard relating to this subject matter is adopted by IETF and any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for practicing this standard, 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 standard. For information contact: Robert Barr Worldwide Patent Counsel Cisco Systems 408-525-9706 rbarr@cisco.com