Title: Ericsson's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-bader-nsis-rmd-diffserv-qsm-00 Received: 3 August 2004 From: Attila Báder In connection with draft-bader-nsis-rmd-diffserv-qsm-00.txt Internet Draft I am sending the following IPR Statement: IPR Statement about RMD I hereby give the following IPR Disclosure in relation to the RMD concept proposed by Ericsson and currently under discussion in IEFT WG NSIS: To the best of my knowledge there are no Ericsson patents or filed patent applications on RMD protocol operation or basic principles. To my knowledge there is only one Ericsson patent application family that could possibly be relevant merely to particular implementation of RMD. This patent family comprises US patent 6687655 and counterparts in other countries. To the best of my knowledge there is only one Ericsson owned invention without any patent applications filed yet that could possibly be relevant to particular implementation of RMD, but this invention is not relevant to RMD protocol operation or basic principles. I have been authorized by Ericsson to give the following Licensing Declaration in relation to the RMD concept proposed by Ericsson and discussed in IEFT WG NSIS: In case a license to a patent in the patent family above or a patent issued/granted on an application for patent on the invention above should be necessary for implementing any Internet Standard, Ericsson is willing to grant to anybody a license to such patent on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions for the implementation of the standard, subject to reciprocity. Attila Bader