RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent c laims

["DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>]

Karl,

Thanks, I found them
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/rsa-ipr-statement-SAML3b-OASI
S-2002-04-22.shtml and
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-cppa/documents/ibm_ipr_statement.
shtml).

SAML: RSA "believes that these two patents (collectively, "the RSA Patents")
may be relevant to practicing certain operational modes of the OASIS
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specifications." "Certain
operational modes" is quite a qualifier, so I wouldn't read this as "you
need RSA's permission to use SAML."

ebXML CPPA: IBM, on the other hand, does believe that their "patent may be
essential to compliant implementations of OASIS ebXML Collaboration Protocol
Profiles (CPP's) and Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPA's)
specifications." This is certainly unqualified. 

Both of them mention "royalty free licenses," while ContentGuard's
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/rights/documents/oasisrltc.shtml)
mentions "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," but I will take heart in
Brad's use of the term "royalty free licensing" in his recent post, and
consider the post to be a big step forward in clearing up some of the
misunderstandings about XrML's potential role as an OASIS standard.

thanks,

Bob DuCharme
Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis
Data Architecture, Editorial Systems and Content Engineering


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:34 PM
To: DuCharme, Bob (LNG); 'Gandee, Brad'; Rights (E-mail) (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent
claims


Bob:

The works of other OASIS TCs have had IPR claims made against them. In
particular you could take a look at SAML and ebXML CPPA. Each TC lists
its IPR claims on its web page.

</karl>
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