[rights] the cut-off date for requirements submission

[Bob Glushko <glushko@SIMS.Berkeley.EDU>]

At 10:45 AM 9/20/2002 -0700, DeMartini, Thomas
wrote:

> [PD] I can't
> cite the minutes of the most recent meetings, which have not been posted
> to the website but it has been reported to me that on 
>
> September 18, 2002 the Rights TC voted to adopt the
> requirements that 
> had been filed and "dispositioned" as of
> August 7, 2002. You don't find 
>
> [TD] My understanding of the motion and vote was to
> only adopt requirements that had been filed as of August 7, 2002. 
> No hard date was set in the motion for when they had to be
> "dispositioned" by, only that the process for disposition (in
> order to "disposition" them by some unspecified date prior to
> October 15, 2002) shall be concensus.

Thomas,
   The source of the conflict in recent days has to do with the
vote to retroactively choose August 7 as the cut off date.  Two very
important requirements documents were submitted just a few days after
August 7 with the agreement of the requirements subcommittee that they
would be included in a version 1 specification. 

 "Supporting
Limits on Copyright Exclusivity in a Rights Expression Language Standard.
A Requirements Submission to the OASIS Rights Language
TC." By Deirdre K. Mulligan and Aaron
Burstein, with John Erickson (Principal Scientist, Digital Media Systems
Lab, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories). August 13, 2002.

Enshrining Fair Use in DRM:
Submission to the OASIS Rights Technical
Committee. By:
Cory
Doctorow
(Electronic Frontier
Foundation). August 14, 2002. 

The requirements subcommittee spent several hours discussing the first of
these (and is nearly finished) but has yet to consider the second. 
I believe that we'd have considerable more harmony if we could all agree
that rather than push these two documents off into the infinite future
we'd deal with them in the spec now.

bob