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IPR Details
3COM's patent announcement pertainingg to the Internet-Draft borella-attn-dnat-xx

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Submitted: December 16, 1998 under the rules in RFC 2026.

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I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")


Holder legal name	3Com Corporation

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application


Holder contact name	Mr. Richard Baker
Holder contact email	Richard_Baker@3com.com
Holder contact info	Director of IP Licensing 3Com Marlborough 350 Campus Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 T: 508-323-1085

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates


Internet-Draft: draft-borella-aatn-dnat ("Distributed Network Address Translation") Notice: No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision was 01 at the time this disclosure was posted. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.

IV. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):


Licensing	See Text Below for Licensing Declaration
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information	3Com Corporation owns one or more patent applications which may cover technology discussed in 3Com's submission "draft-borella-aatn-dnat-01.txt" relating to distributed or host-based network address translation. 3Com intends to make licenses available under any patents it may obtain that cover technology necessary to implement an IETF standard relating to distributed or host-based network address translation under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions. 3Com's willingness to grant such licenses to a particular licensee, however, is conditioned upon receiving reciprocity from such licensee with respect to any patents it may own that cover technology necessary to practice a standard.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form


Submitter name	Mike Borella
Submitter email	Mike_Borella@mw.3com.com