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Subject: Re: [chairs] Comments and IP
Hal, Hal Lockhart wrote: >Hi Patrick, how have you been? > > > Been busy with standards stuff! The Topic Maps Reference Model is on CD ballot (ISO) and ODF is out for ISO ballot as well. >I believe the issue is that OASIS needs a positive confirmation that the >party providing feedback actively agrees to the terms of the Feedback >License (Appendix A of the IPR Policy). Since this commits the party to >things like patent licensing terms, mere notice is not sufficient. They >have to sign and return the form. > > > Sure, but what I was thinking about was a subscription confirmation process, not merely notice. From memory but I have been on email lists where you send the "subcribe message" and then you get a "confirmation" post from the list that says something to the effect: "you or at least your email address has asked to subscribe, to make sure it is you, please reply to this message, blah, blah." I was thinking that a response to the confirmation message (assuming we included the IP language) would be as binding as any transaction over the web. In other words, not merely notice but *notice + affirmative response* to the notice via email. Just like the click-thru you suggest below but doing it with email. The one refinement I would suggest is language that the agreement is effective until the person unsubscribes from the list. How have you been? Hope you are having a great day! Patrick >This is not my area of expertise, but perhaps a click-thru license on >the web page might be sufficient. However I don't think an automated >message on a mailing list would ever be sufficient to create a binding >legal commitment. > >Hal > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:patrick@durusau.net] >>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:33 PM >>To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org >>Subject: [chairs] Comments and IP >> >>Greetings! >> >>At a meeting of the ODF Metadata SC the issue came up about getting >>non-OASIS members to post use cases and other feedback to the TC. >> >>The only mechanism now is the comment form. >> >>One of the participants mentioned that the W3C handles that by sending >>the IP notice as part of the subscription confirmation. >> >>That seems like an easier way to handle the IP notice and gets members >>of the public into the discussion loop. >> >>The SC is looking for the easiest way possible, consistent with the >>required IP notice to get feedback. The reasoning being that is it >>easier to market a standard or technology that is what people are >>interested in using than something that we are interested in >> >> >marketing. > > >>I haven't done email adminstration in years but that seems like it >> >> >would > > >>be fairly easy to implement and would cover all the necessary IP >> >> >notices. > > >>Hope everyone is having a great day! >> >>Patrick >> >>PS: The next ODF Metadata meeting is Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 11 >> >> >AM. > > >>Please join us! >> >>-- >>Patrick Durusau >>Patrick@Durusau.net >>Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface >>Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model >>Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 >> >>Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! >> >> >> > > > > > > -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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