Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-foschiano-udld-00.txt Received: 26 September 2005 Requestors: dlang@cisco.com Cisco is the owner of US Patent No. #6,765,877 and US published patent application 20040218540 relating to the subject matter of "UniDirectional Link Detection (UDLD) Protocol" . 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 Senior IP Counsel Cisco Systems 408-526-6672 dlang@cisco.com CC: foschia