Title: France Telecom's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-dubois-bgp-planned-maintenance-00 Received: 28 July 2004 From: RAES Serge RD-PIV-ISS This is to inform the IETF that France Telecom is seeking patent protection on some or all of the technology described in document http://www.ietf.org/ internet-drafts/draft-dubois-bgp-planned-maintenance-00.txt. If any part of this document is adopted as a standard, in the event that France Telecom is granted a patent or patents essential its implementation, France Telecom is prepared to grant, on the basis of reciprocity (grant-back) whenever applicable, a license on such included part(s) on reasonable, non-discriminatory terms and conditions. Other reasonable conditions may also apply as contained in France Telecom's General IPR Statement found at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/FRANCE-TELECOM.txt and updated from time to time. Any questions related to this statement may be addressed to : France Telecom R&D/PIV/PI Attn. Mr. Serge RAES 38-40, rue du General Leclerc F-92794 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9 France mailto : serge.raes@francetelecom.com Tel: +33 1 4529 6007 Fax: +33 1 4529 6560 A copy of this letter is sent by e-mail to the IETF secretary at ietf-ipr@ietf.org Best regards, Serge RAES, Intellectual Property and Standards Manager