Re: [oic] Proposal: Acknowledgment of Contribution

[Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

   The only people who can be listed on an OASIS specification are TC  
members (and not observers).

Regards,

Mary

On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

> Re: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200910/msg00016.html>
>
>
> Thinking this over a bit more, I think there should be two parts to  
> the
> acknowledgment section:
>
> 1. First, there should be a statement of the following form:
>
> "During the development of this [document/specification/report] the
> following individuals participated as Members of the OASIS  
> OpenDocument
> Interoperabilty and Conformance (OIC) TC:
>
>   "John Hancock, The British East India Company
>    ...
>    "
>
> [Rationale: the names and affiliations are important because of the  
> IPR
> rules and the obligation business for specifications.  This is maybe  
> not so
> important for a report, but I think it is a material thing even if  
> they were
> never on a call or ever posted to the TC List.]
>
> 2. Secondly, there should be recognition of all material  
> contributions by
> outside parties using the comment list.  (If we had a submission  
> from JTC1,
> I would just acknowledge the body, not the individuals.)  Something  
> like,
>
> "The OASIS OIC TC also received public comments that contributed to  
> the
> improvement of this [document/specification/report].  The OIC TC
> acknowledges the following contributors for their comments:
>
>  " Ethelred the Elder, guesswho@gmail.com
>    ...
>    "
>
> [not sure how oic-comment submitters should be acknowledged.  Might  
> need to
> contact each of them, especially if an employer name is needed.   
> Notice the
> above wording does not reveal our basis for selection, just that we  
> choose
> to acknowledge (some of) them.]
>
> 3. One reason for doing this is to encourage contributions and to  
> let people
> know in this public manner that we value that.  The other is to  
> establish
> that there was an agreement with regard to IPR, our permission to use
> contributions, etc.  If a contribution even got us thinking about an  
> issue,
> although we didn't use it directly, I would leave that a judgment  
> call.
> oic-comment posts that don't contribute anything or ask a meaningful
> question can be discounted, of course.
>
> - Dennis
>
>
>
>
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