Received: July 8, 2002

Received: July 8, 2002
From: "Malin Gullstrand (EAB)" <[email protected]>

License statement IETF- hmipv6

PATENT LICENSE UNDERTAKING

In the MobileIP Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the proposal "Hierarchical mobility management in IPv6" (draft-ietf-mobileip-hmipv6-06.txt), dated July 2002, has been made (July 5 2002).
In the following, said submission and any future revision of said submission is referred to as "the hmipv6 submission".

Ericsson's general patent license statement (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/ERICSSON-General) also applies to the hmipv6
submission.

In addition, for the hmipv6 submission, if said submission is included in an IETF
standard and Ericsson has patents that are essential to the implementation of such
included submission in said standard, Ericsson is prepared to grant - on the basis
of reciprocity -a paid up, nonexclusive, royalty free license on such patents for
the purpose of implementing said standard, if and only if practiced under any
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