Date:        Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:57:36 +0100
    From:        Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
    Message-ID:  <20010201115735.A15113@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>

  | Have you checked whether any of the uncounted IBM or four Nortel patents
  | claimed to refer to MPLS forbid this without a license? See the IETF
  | intellectual property rights page for details.

Patents preventing adding numbers to a file?   I doubt it.   They
may prevent using MPLS, but they can't possibly prevent adding the
ethertype definitions to the ethertypes file.

kre