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[ns] re: Nortel IPR disclosure for diffserv (fwd)
I was scanning the ns archive and didn't see a response to
this note.
A quick answer: I'm pretty sure the disclosure referred to
below has nothing to do with the Nortel diffserv code that's
now part of ns.
Best,
Nabil Seddigh
>I do hope this doesn't affect the nortel diffserv code now in ns...
>
>L.
>
><[email protected]>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:06:52 -0600
>From: Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: Diff Serv <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Diffserv] FYI: Nortel IPR disclosure for diffserv
>
>
>http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/NORTEL-DIFFSERV
>"This is to advise the IETF that Nortel Networks has filed US and
>international patent applications that may relate to the IETF
Differentiated
>Services technology.
>
>Where there is a necessary dependence upon this intellectual property
in
>implementations of Differentiated Services technology, Nortel Networks
>hereby agrees to license on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory
terms
>to all parties, any patent claims it owns covering such technology,
solely
>to the extent this technology is essential to comply with this
standard, but
>on the condition that any such party grants to Nortel Networks and its
>corporate affiliates a reciprocal license under that party's patents
for
>which there is also a necessary dependence.
>
>Any questions related to this statement may be addressed to:
>
>Gib Ritenour
>Director, Technical Standards & Patent Strategy
>Nortel Networks
>e-mail: [email protected]"
>
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