Title: Samsung Electronics Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-dhc-rapid-commit-opt Received: June 22, 2004 From: Soohong Daniel Park This is to inform the IETF that in the event that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung") is granted one or more patents resulting from a Korean patent application No. 2003-075293 to the implementation of the internet draft . Samsung agrees to grant a royalty-free license to all parties implementing Samsung's aforesaid draft, subject to reciprocity of the licensed party under essential patents for IETF and IETF's adoption of the draft as the standard. This grant immediately cancels to any party asserting rights against Samsung for any apparatus, system, product-by-process, medium, and/or method described in the draft. Sincerely, Yong Tae Lee Vice President Intellectual Property Team Digital Media R&D Center Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.