The following was received March 15, 2001
From: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>

WALID, Inc. has no patent or patent applications on file, nor does it
plan to file any patent applications, directed to the specific means for
encoding described in the IETF drafts 'draft-ietf-idn-utf6' and
'draft-ietf-idn-dude'.

  For any questions regarding WALID intellectual property and license,
please contact:

  J. Douglas Hawkins
  dhawkins@walid.com
  WALID, Inc.
  State Technology Park
  2245 S. State St.
  Ann Arbor, MI 48104