Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-bfd-mpls-bfd-00 Received: 6 July 2004 From: Robert Barr Cisco is the owner of one or more pending patent application relating to the subject matter of "Using Bi-Directional Forwarding Indication as a Fault Detection Mechanism for MPLS LSPs" . If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, 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 standard. For information contact: Robert Barr Worldwide Patent Counsel Cisco Systems 408-525-9706 rbarr@cisco.com