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Fwd: Certicom IP Rights

Dear IPsec Working Group:

I just got this note, but I believe that it is related to US patent number 6,563,928.

Certicom did give us warning that this was coming. On Monday, 20 July 1998, Paul Lambert (who was VPl, Product Management at the time) wrote to the IPsec mail list on a thread dealing with "Patent & licence for IPSec." Unfortunately, the thread was mostly about ECC, so this notice did not generate any discussion. Paul said:

"Some of the pending patents for secure implementations of public key
technologies may also cover implementations of the current mandatory
portions of IKE in IPsec."

I have asked Mr. McKinnon to post an updated IPR statement as soon as possible.

Russ

Subject: Certicom IP Rights
To: housley@vigilsec.com
From: Ian McKinnon <IMcKinnon@certicom.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:23:09 -0400

Dear Mr. Housley:

Certicom has been reviewing its Intellectual Property position with
respect to the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (as specified in "Internet
Key Exchange (IKEv2) Proposal" <draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-08.txt>).We believe
that we may have certain IP rights covering some aspects of the draft.

We are still in the process of preparing our positions with respect to our
IPR but wanted to inform you as IKEv2 is being finalized.

Ian McKinnon
President and CEO
Certicom Corp