History for IPR disclosure
Adaptec's Patent Statement pertaining to draft-ietf-ips-iscsi.txt entitled 'iSCSI.'

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/adaptec-ips-iscsi.txt

Received March 7, 2003
From: Todd_Sperry@adaptec.com

Adaptec has made a patent application that may relate to the
work underway in the IPS working group, specifically to the
work derived from draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-20.txt.  This patent application
describes a method and process for calculating a CRC on data
received out of order without having to store and assemble the data.


If any patents are issued to Adaptec 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
under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.


Requests may be sent to:


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        Phone:  (408) 957-1718
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