The following was received July 10, 2000 From: Rita.Keulemans@alcatel.be Alcatel has filed a patent application relating to its contribution in draft-bonaventure-diffserv-rashaper-04.txt. If the contribution is incorporated by the IETF in a standard, and a patent covering the contribution issues to Alcatel, Alcatel is willing to make available, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, a non-exclusive license in the patent, as necessary to practice the standard, to any interested party which is likewise willing to make available licenses necessary to practice the standard.