Title: Alcatel's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-martini-l2circuit-trans-mpls-08.txt Date: 23 June 2005 From: Albin.Schaetzle@alcatel.de Alcatel Canada Inc. got the patent US 6 882 647 granted, which was published on April 19, 2005. The patent might be relevant for IETF Internet Draft "Transport of Layer 2 Frames over MPLS" < draft-martini-l2circuit-trans-mpls-08.txt > (11/01), RFC 2547 (1999) and RFC 2547 bis. Alcatel is prepared to grant a license under the conditions of Alcatel's General License Statement: http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/ALCATEL-GENERAL For any questions on this matter, please contact: Ulrich Knecht, Vice President Intellectual Property 54 rue La Boétie ? 75008 PARIS Phone: + 33 1 40 76 2863 Fax : + 33 1 40 76 2880 e-mail: Ulrich.Knecht@Alcatel.com Albin Schätzle Albin Schätzle Tel.: + 49 (0) 711 821 44525 Senior IP Counsel CTO Functions or + 49 (0) 170 2219 786 Intellectual Property Group Fax.: +49 (0) 711 821 44587 Alcatel e-mail: albin.schaetzle@alcatel.de D-70435 Stuttgart, Lorenzstrasse 10