IPR Details
Joseph Gersch's Statement about IPR related to draft-gersch-sidrops-sovereign-roots

Update this IPR disclosure
Submitted: September 18, 2026 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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

Holder legal name Joseph Gersch

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Joseph Gersch
Holder contact email jgersch@invykta.com
Holder contact info

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-gersch-sidrops-sovereign-roots ("Route Origin Authorization via Protected Delegation of Internet Number Resources")
Revisions:
00

IV. 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: US64/153376
Inventor: Joseph Gersch
Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENFORCING PROTECTED HIERARCHICAL RESOURCE DELEGATIONS USING WRITE-TIME REFUSAL, BOUNDED CONTAINMENT INDEXES, AND AUTHORITY-TRAVERSAL BOUNDARIES
Date: 2026-09-11

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending Yes

V. 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 Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All 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.

VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Joseph Gersch
Submitter email jgersch@invykta.com

VII. Other Notes

Additional notes

The disclosed patent application is pending and unpublished.
The pending application may Cover mechanisms described in the following
sections of draft-gersch-sidrops-sovereign-roots-00:
Section 4.3 Controlling Principals and Authentication of Writes
Section 5 Protected Delegations
Section 5.1 Provisional Protection Window
Section 5.2 Nested and Partial Delegation
Section 5.3 Holder-Controlled Recovery
Section 5.4 Who May Grant Protection
Section 6 Bounded Protected-Range Conflict Detection
Section 7 Provenance and Holder Confirmation
Section 8 Finality and Canonical State
Section 10.2 Protected-Range Precedence
Section 10.5 Conveying Protected Ranges to Relying Parties
No representation is made that the pending application Covers any other
portion of the document.
The licensing commitment in Section VI is binding on any transferee or
assignee of the disclosed IPR, and any such transferee will be required
to use reasonable efforts to ensure that the commitment is binding on
subsequent transferees, consistent with RFC 8179 Section 5.5.C.
The disclosed application is held personally by the named inventor and is
not currently assigned to Invykta LLC, which appears as the author's
organization in the referenced Internet-Draft.
This disclosure relates to an Experimental Internet-Draft submitted to
initiate technical discussion.
This disclosure will be updated promptly upon publication of the pending
application or issuance of any patent, as required by RFC 8179
Section 5.4.2.

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