Received November 22, 2000 From: Markus Levlin SSH Communications Security Corp hereby announces that at least one of our patent applications may be relevant to the internet-draft draft-huttunen-ipsec-esp-in-udp-00.txt. At present, said patent application has been filed in the US and PCT. The PCT counterpart (PCT/FI00/00537) will be published by the authorities on or after 15 December 2000. The material of the PCT application is attached to this message as a pdf file. In the case that said internet-draft becomes an IETF standard, SSH Communications Security Corp intends to support a widespread adoption of the standard by offering - on the basis of reciprocity whenever applicable - to license any IPR owned by SSH Communications Security Corp necessary for implementing the standard on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. Yours sincerely, Markus Levlin