As per Relevance of the word technology, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group G.
Request for Comments: 1988 D.
Category: Informational J.
Hewlett Packard
August 1996
Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard
In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force'
Internet-Standard Network Management
Status of This
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution
this memo is unlimited
Note
This document is NOT a standard. It is an announcement to
parties of a conditional grant by the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)
certain rights to use autotopology network management
covered by specific HP patents in conjunction with the
Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) Internet-standard
management framework
This grant is made to help facilitate inclusion of certain
search address technology covering network device mapping in
standards-track Management Information Base (MIB) modules. HP
offering this search address technology to the IETF as a
for mapping network devices. It should be noted that
confirmatory license mentioned is optional, since the grant of
is automatic
A Grant of Rights to Hewlett-Packard US Patents 5,293,635 and 5,421,024
HP hereby covenants that it will not assert any claims in US
5,293,635, 5,421,024, any continuations, divisions,
continuations-in-part of either, or any non-US counterparts of any
the foregoing against any party that makes, uses, sells, imports,
offers for sale, an implementation of an IETF standards-track
module that includes HP's contributed search address technology,
any derivative of that contribution, provided that the MIB module
employed to implement the Internet-standard network
framework. Such grant of rights is limited in that it does
include a right to incorporate such HP search address technology
McAnally, Gilbert & Flick Informational [Page 1]
RFC 1988 Search Address Patent Use August 1996
proprietary MIB modules
This grant of rights will permanently terminate with respect to
party (and to any subsidiary of a party) that asserts a patent
owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, against HP or any
its subsidiaries for implementation of, or operation of any
utilizing, search address technology. The termination of rights
occur as of the date the patent is asserted against HP
A written confirmation of this grant, and/or a license under
other HP patent under HP's then-current terms, conditions,
royalty rates, can be obtained by sending a request to
Patent
Hewlett-Packard
3000 Hanover
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Security
Security issues are not discussed in this memo
Authors'
Gary
Hewlett-Packard
8000 Foothills Blvd
Roseville, CA 95747
Douglas
Hewlett-Packard
3000 Hanover
Palo Alto, CA 94304
John
Hewlett-Packard
8000 Foothills Blvd. M.S. 5556
Roseville, CA 95747-5556
Phone: (916) 785-4018
EMail: johnf@hprnd.rose.hp.
McAnally, Gilbert & Flick Informational [Page 2]
if you see any problems within the linking, don't worry be happy,
this is version 0.1 of the Relevance System and you gotta expect some crappy subroutines sometimes,
just be content we did not write this in Java, which would have made this "bigger and better" HAHAHHA.
RFC documents can be found at I.E.T.F.
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