Received November 14, 2001 From: Robert Barr Cisco is the owner of US Patent No. 6,167,445, and at least one other pending patent relating to the subject matter of several Internet Drafts relating to policy-based management of QoS, including draft-ietf-diffserv-pib-05.txt entitled "Differentiated Services Quality of Service Policy Information Base". If one or more standards for policy-based management of QoS are adopted by IETF and any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for practicing any such standards, any party will be able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the standard. For information contact: Robert Barr Worldwide Patent Counsel Cisco Systems 408-525-9706 rbarr@cisco.com