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Karl Auerbach's statement about possible IPR claimed in RFC 4656 belonging to Hewlett Packard

Submitted: September 25, 2006 under the rules in RFC 3979.

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

Holder legal name Hewlett Packard

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

Name Karl Auerbach
Email karl@cavebear.com
Other info

T: +1 831 430-3610 x 108

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

RFC:
RFC4656 ("A One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP)")

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979

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

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

Not known
Date: Not known
Country: Probably US

Notes: Several years ago I heard that Hewlett Packard had a patent on cross-net latency
measurements that used GPS time sources. (Given that HP split itself in two,
the patent, if it exists might be owned by Agilent.)

I have no idea whether I was hearing (or mis-hearing), much less any details on
the patent.

This RFC might suggest something that, if implemented, might impinge on that
patent (assuming that it exists.)

I hate to be so vague, but I don't have anything more concrete. I was working
on some net measurement tools myself (e.g.
http://www.cavebear.com/fpcp/fpcp-sept-19-2000.html ) and remember that I and
several others avoided using GPS time measurements for transit-time measurements
precisely because of the existence of this putative patent.

By-the-way, as for question "B" below, I have no idea whether what I heard
about was an unpublished application. But it was several years ago so any
period of non-publication ought to have expired by now.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?: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

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