Received March 11, 2002
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>


Cisco has a pending patent application relating to the subject matter
of draft-nguyen-ospf-oob-resync-00.txt, "OSPF Out-of-band LSDB
resynchronization".  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