Motion for vote on the OASIS IPR policy

[Laura Walker <laurawalker@earthlink.net>]

BACKGROUND: 

OASIS needs an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy to
carry out its technical work and have joint technical projects
with other organizations (for example, UN/CEFACT, the OMG,
and the OAG). To this end, we have modified the the IETF IPR
policy found in chapter 10 of "RFC 2026  The Internet Standards
Process -- Revision 3", dated Oct .1996, located at
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt, to suit our purposes.

The primary changes involve substitutions related to
organizational and standards process differences
between OASIS and the IETF (and its parent organization, the
ISOC). On the advice of counsel, we have added several clauses
related to submissions, confidentially, and formal notification
to the OASIS Board of Directors of patents, patent applications,
and proprietary rights. We have also made other small changes
to fix spelling and punctuation. 

VOTING:

We encourage your participation in the voting process. This email and your 
response will constitute a written ballot.

Each member is entitled to one vote. As always, the number of responses 
needed to meet quorum requirement for this ballot is one-third of our 
membership. In this case, the number of responses required is 34.

Please ensure that your vote is recorded by completing this ballot and
sending it via email to execdir@oasis-open.org NO LATER THAN 10 JANUARY 
2000.


------------------------- BALLOT -------------------------  
PROPOSED ACTION: Accept the attached Intellectual
Property Rights document as official policy of OASIS.

DOCUMENTS: Please find attached a red-lined version of the 
IPR policy and a version with all changes incorporated.


APPROVED: 			___
DISAPPROVED: 		___
MEMBER ORGANIZATION:   	_____________________________________
VOTING REPRESENTATIVE:	_____________________________________



Thank you for your careful and immediate attention to this matter.



Regards,
Laura


Laura Walker
Executive Director
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OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards

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OASIS-IPR-19991213.doc

OASIS-IPR-19991213-redline.doc