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IPR Details
Sun Microsysems' Licensing statement pertaining to Reliable Multicast

Submitted: November 21, 2000 under the rules in RFC 2026.

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

Holder legal name Sun Microsystems, Inc.

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name Robert F. Sproull
Holder contact email
Holder contact info

Vice President and Sun Fellow
1 Network Drive, Mail Stop BUR02-311
Burlington, MA 01803

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

IV. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing See Text Below for Licensing Declaration
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

Sun will grant the IETF and implementers of IETF Reliable
Multicast specifications a nonexclusive license to use its
essential patents that are necessary to implement IETF Reliable
Multicast specifications on reasonable and nondiscriminatory
terms and conditions provided that the IETF and such implementers
of IETF Reliable Multicast specifications provide a reciprocol
license consisting of the same terms and conditions to Sun, the IETF
and other implementers of IETF Reliable Multicast specifications.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Miriam Kadansky
Submitter email Miriam.Kadansky@East.Sun.com

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