RFC 1988

Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management Framework 💖

• Network Working Group, Request for Comments: 1988 🦋
• Category: Informational
• Date: August 1996
• Authors: G. McAnally, D. Gilbert, and J. Flick, all from Hewlett Packard Company 👑
• Obsoletes and updates: the header doesn't list anything this one obsoletes or updates 🙈

Status of This Memo ✨

okay so this memo is for the Internet community as info 💅 It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind, and distribution of it is unlimited 🌸

Note 📝

bestie, this document is NOT a standard 😭 It's 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 🔥

Purpose 🎀

this grant exists to help get certain patented search address technology into IETF standards-track Management Information Base (MIB) modules. The patented tech covers network device mapping, and HP is offering it 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 ✨

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 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. That covenant covers 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. It applies provided that the MIB module is employed to implement the Internet-standard network management framework 🫶

The grant is limited, though. It does not include a right to incorporate that HP search address technology into proprietary MIB modules 🙅‍♀️

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 💀

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:

Patent Counsel
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA

Security Considerations 🔐

Security issues are not discussed in this memo. 💀 Not a single one. Nada. Zero. Keep that in mind, bestie 🙈

Authors' Addresses 🌈

Gary McAnally
Hewlett-Packard Company
8000 Foothills Blvd.
Roseville, CA 95747
USA

Douglas Gilbert
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA

John Flick
Hewlett-Packard Company
8000 Foothills Blvd. M.S. 5556
Roseville, CA 95747-5556
USA

Phone: (916) 785-4018 EMail: johnf@hprnd.rose.hp.com 🍓