IPR Details
Anapaya Systems AG's Statement about IPR related to draft-dekater-scion-controlplane, draft-rustignoli-panrg-scion-components, and draft-dekater-panrg-scion-overview

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Submitted: May 28, 2024 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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

Holder legal name Anapaya Systems AG

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Samuel Hitz
Holder contact email hitz@anapaya.net
Holder contact info

Anapaya Systems AG, Samuel Hitz, Hardturmstrasse 253, CH-8005 Zurich

III. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Nicola Rustignoli
Email nic@scion.org
Other info

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-dekater-scion-controlplane ("SCION Control Plane")
Revisions:
00-03
Sections:
2, 3, 4, 5.3
Internet-Draft:
draft-rustignoli-panrg-scion-components ("SCION Components Analysis")
Revisions:
00-03
Sections:
2.2
Internet-Draft:
draft-dekater-panrg-scion-overview ("SCION Overview")
Revisions:
00-06
Sections:
2.2, 3.1

V. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

Number: EP3941003A1, US11362932B2
Inventor: Sergiu COSTEA, Samuel HITZ
Title: Achieving highly available autonomous systems (as) in a source-selected path routing network
Date: 2022-06-14
Notes: Patent date: 2022-09-28 (EP), 2022-06-14 (US)

The patent describes an implementation of a highly available SCION AS control-plane relying on sharding, gossiping, and eventual consistency.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

VI. 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 No License Required for Implementers
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

(No information submitted)

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.

VII. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Samuel Hitz
Submitter email hitz@anapaya.net

VIII. Other Notes

Additional notes

Any of the aforementioned IETF specifications can be implemented without infringing on any of the patent's claims given that there are many more ways of implementing the control-plane of a SCION AS. Should an implementer want to use the same implementation as described in the patent, the patent holder will issue a Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All Implementers with Possible Royalty/Fee.

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