Title: Broadcom's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-rddp-mpa-01 Received: 2 September 2004 From: Shannon Tyson This declaration is being made pursuant to the provisions of IETF IPR Policy, RFC 3668, Section 6. This is to advise the IETF that Broadcom believes it has published and unpublished pending patent application(s) that may relate to the following Internet Draft document: draft-ietf-rddp-mpa-01.txt To the extent that the technology discussed in this Internet Draft becomes an IETF Standard, Broadcom shall, upon written request, offer a non-exclusive license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (which may include defensive suspension rights) for only such portion of any product which is fully compliant with said IETF Standard, under any issued patent claims owned by Broadcom which would necessarily be infringed by a product solely because it is fully compliant with the IETF standard. Broadcom's willingness to grant such licenses is conditioned upon the prospective licensee granting a reciprocal license to Broadcom. Potentially relevant published patent applications include the following: U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/230,643, entitled "System and Method For Identifying Upper Layer Protocol Message Boundaries" U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/751,732, entitled "System and Method For Handling Transport Protocol Segments" Written requests for licenses may be sent to: H. Shannon Tyson, Jr. Intellectual Property Counsel Broadcom, Corporation PO Box 57013, Irvine, CA 92619-7013 styson@broadcom.com