[rights] forwarded for Mike Godwin

["Reddy, Hari" <Hari.Reddy@CONTENTGUARD.COM>]

Title: forwarded for Mike Godwin

Hello All:
This message is being forwarded on behalf of Mike Godwin. Mike, I hope you don't mind in that I removed all of the header stuff.

I will check with OASIS on the problems as I do not control the subscription.
Regards,
Hari

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>>At 09:51 AM 9/20/2002 -0400, Peter Schirling wrote:
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>>1. Hari has my vote of confidence to continue as chair of this TC.
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>
>Peter, for me the issue isn't Hari in particular. Hari has been
>consistently gracious towards me, even when we disagree.
>
>For me, the real issue is whether the committee is a sham whose
>purpose was to rubberstamp the original set of requirements in order
>to give the stamp of OASIS approval to a proprietary standard
>"rights-expression language" that does not accurately express
>"rights." (We may stipulate that the requirements currently express
>something else -- perhaps we should reclassify this as the "industry
>wish-list control and permissions language.")
>
>There are public-policy consequences to getting the design of this
>standard wrong. It may be that engineers and programmers and
>managers are unaware of the grave harm they can do by rushing to
>judgment -- if so, then my job is to help educate them. But if the
>issue is that they *don't care* whether the standard they adopt has
>negative public-policy consequences, then I think my job is to let
>that fact become more widely known, both within OASIS and outside it.
>
>
>--Mike
>
>
>
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>            --Walt Whitman Mike Godwin can be reached by phone at 202-637-9800
>His book, CYBER RIGHTS, can be ordered at
>       http://www.panix.com/~mnemonic .
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"I speak the password primeval .... I give the sign of democracy ...."
            --Walt Whitman
Mike Godwin can be reached by phone at 202-637-9800
His book, CYBER RIGHTS, can be ordered at
        http://www.panix.com/~mnemonic .
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