[70375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krause)
Tue May 11 18:47:28 2004
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:46:43 -0500
From: David Krause <nanog@davidkrause.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Looks like Cisco is now trying to patent security....
http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure.txt
Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
Received: April 26, 2004
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>
Cisco is the owner of one or more pending patent applications relating to
the subject matter of "Transmission Control Protocol security
considerations" <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-00.txt>. If technology in this
document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any
Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will be
able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under
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
