Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-bryant-shand-lf-applicability-03 Date: 7 August 2007 From: Rachel Albright Cisco is the owner of US published patent applications 20040117251, 20050078610, 20050078656, 20060101158, 20070019652, 20070038767 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of "Applicability of Loop-free Convergence" . If any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for implementing this specification, any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the specification. For information contact: Dan Lang Director, Patents and Standards IPR Cisco Systems +1 408-526-6672 standards-ipr@cisco.com