Title: Cisco's Statement of IPR claimed in draft-ietf-sidr-roa-validation-03.txt Date: November 2, 2009 From: Michael Lee Cisco is the owner of US Patent Application Serial No. 12/243,767 relating to the subject matter of "Validation of Route Origination in BGP using the Resource Certificate PKI and ROAs" . This unpublished patent application contains the following text: "One embodiment validates or invalidates a route received in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update message. A route is validated in response to determining that the originating autonomous system specified in the AS_Path attribute for the route in a received BGP update message has authority to advertise the route and/or whether or not multiple autonomous systems identified in the AS_Path attribute of the update message is authorized to advertise the route, possibly in a particular order." 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 have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the standard. The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are: If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or controlled by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing or offering for sale a product that implements the standard, provided, however that Cisco retains the right to assert its patents (including the right to claim past royalties) against any party that asserts a patent it owns or controls (either directly or indirectly) against Cisco or any of Cisco's affiliates or successors in title or against any products of Cisco or any products of any of Cisco's affiliates either alone or in combination with other products; and Cisco retains the right to assert its patents against any product or portion thereof that is not necessary for compliance with the standard. Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option. For information contact: Dan Lang Director, Intellectual Property Cisco Systems +1 408-526-6672 standards-ipr@cisco.com