Received October 14, 2002 via Scott Bradner Ref: 3864 Intellectual Property Considerations for BGP MPLS Graceful Restart Redback Networks, Inc. is seeking patent protection on some of the technology described in draft-ietf-mpls-bgp-mpls-restart-02.txt. If technology in this document is adopted as a standard, Redback Networks agrees to license, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, any patent rights it obtains covering such technology to the extent necessary to comply with the standard.