The following was received June 25, 1999 with the Submission of draft-sigtran-signaling-backhaul-01.txt From: Ken Morneault Cisco has a patent pending that may relate to this proposed standard. If this proposed standard is adopted by the IETF and any patents issued to Cisco or its subsidiaries with claims that are necessary for practicing this standard, any party will be able to obtain the right to implement, use and distribute the technology or works when implementing, using or distributing technology based upon the specific specification(s) under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms. Requests may be sent to: Robert Barr Suite 280 2882 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 650-926-6205