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- Network Working Group G. McAnally
- Request for Comments: 1988 D. Gilbert
- Category: Informational J. Flick
- Hewlett Packard Company
- August 1996
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- Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents
- In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's
- Internet-Standard Network Management Framework
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- Status of This Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
- does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
- this memo is unlimited.
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- Note:
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- This document is NOT a standard. It is an announcement to interested
- parties of a conditional grant by the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) of
- certain rights to use autotopology network management technology
- covered by specific HP patents in conjunction with the Internet
- Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) Internet-standard network
- management framework.
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- Purpose
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- This grant is made to help facilitate inclusion of certain patented
- search address technology covering network device mapping in IETF
- standards-track Management Information Base (MIB) modules. HP is
- offering this search address technology to the IETF as a technique
- for mapping network devices. It should be noted that the
- confirmatory license mentioned is optional, since the grant of rights
- is automatic.
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- A Grant of Rights to Hewlett-Packard US Patents 5,293,635 and 5,421,024
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- HP hereby covenants that it will not assert any claims in US Patents
- 5,293,635, 5,421,024, any continuations, divisions, or
- continuations-in-part of either, or any non-US counterparts of any of
- the foregoing against any party that makes, uses, sells, imports, or
- offers for sale, an implementation of an IETF standards-track MIB
- module that includes HP's contributed search address technology, or
- any derivative of that contribution, provided that the MIB module is
- employed to implement the Internet-standard network management
- framework. Such grant of rights is limited in that it does not
- include a right to incorporate such HP search address technology into
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- RFC 1988 Search Address Patent Use August 1996
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- proprietary MIB modules.
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- This grant of rights will permanently terminate with respect to any
- party (and to any subsidiary of a party) that asserts a patent it
- owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, against HP or any of
- its subsidiaries for implementation of, or operation of any system
- utilizing, search address technology. The termination of rights will
- occur as of the date the patent is asserted against HP.
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- A written confirmation of this grant, and/or a license under any
- other HP patent under HP's then-current terms, conditions, and
- royalty rates, can be obtained by sending a request to:
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- Patent Counsel
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- 3000 Hanover Street
- Palo Alto, CA 94304
- USA
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- Security Considerations
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- Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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- Authors' Addresses
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- Gary McAnally
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- 8000 Foothills Blvd.
- Roseville, CA 95747
- USA
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- Douglas Gilbert
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- 3000 Hanover Street
- Palo Alto, CA 94304
- USA
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- John Flick
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- 8000 Foothills Blvd. M.S. 5556
- Roseville, CA 95747-5556
- USA
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- Phone: (916) 785-4018
- EMail: johnf@hprnd.rose.hp.com
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