Re: NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929: Vulnerability Issues in TCP

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* David Ahmad:

> The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published an Internet
> Draft to co-incide with the release of this advisory.  The text of
> this draft is available from the IETF web site:

> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-00.txt

In the meantime, the IETF has disclosed the following IPR statement
from Cisco:

| Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
| Received: April 26, 2004
| From: Robert Barr <rbarr () cisco com>
| 
| Cisco is the owner of one or more pending patent applications
| relating to the subject matter of "Transmission Control Protocol
| security considerations" <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-00.txt>. If
| technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by
| IETF and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for
| practicing the standard, any party will be able to obtain a license
| from Cisco to use any such patent claims under 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

<http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure.txt>

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