Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in RFC 3488 Date: 30 July 2008 From: Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com> Cisco is the owner of US Patent Nos. 6,847,638 and 7,385,977 relating

Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in RFC 3488 Date: 30 July 2008 From: Rachel Albright<[email protected]> Cisco is the owner of US Patent Nos. 6,847,638 and 7,385,977 relating
to the subject matter of Request for Comments (RFC) 3488 "Cisco Systems
Router-port Group Management Protocol (RGMP)." If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF
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