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Steven M. Bellovin's Statement about IPR related to RFC 4808 belonging to Cisco Technology Inc.

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Submitted: August 16, 2018 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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I. Possible Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Cisco Technology Inc.

II. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Steven M. Bellovin
Email smb@cs.columbia.edu
Other info

I'm the author of the RFC in question.

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

RFC:
RFC4808 ("Key Change Strategies for TCP-MD5")

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

Date: 2005-07-01
Title: Approaches for switching transport protocol connection keys
Number: US7545810
Inventor: Satish K. Mynam, Anantha Ramaiah, Chandrashekhar Appa, et al

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Steven M. Bellovin
Submitter email smb@cs.columbia.edu

VI. Other Notes

Additional notes

The cited patent is at least close to some (but not, I think, all) of the strategies suggested in RFC 4808. I have NOT done a full analysis of the claims, etc., of course.

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