History for IPR disclosure
Cisco's Patent Claim pertaining to draft-vasseur-mpls-backup-computation

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/CISCO-MPLS-BACKUP-COMPUTATION.txt

Received July 1, 2002
From: Robert Barr

Cisco has at least one pending patent application relating to the
subject matter of draft-vasseur-mpls-backup-computation-00.txt,
"MPLS Traffic Engineering Fast reroute: backup tunnel path computation
for bandwidth protection" . If a standard relating to this subject
matter is adopted by IETF and any claims of any issued Cisco patents
are necessary for practicing this standard, any party will be able to
obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under openly
specified, 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