Re: [xtm-wg] Chair's response/clarification: IDEAlliance and TopicMaps.org

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Eric Freese wrote:
> 
> A bit of clarification:
> 
> The decision was originally reached unilaterally, WITHOUT discussing it with
> me and I was originally notified with 1 week's notice.  I appealed the
> decision and, as can be seen, have been subsequently turned down.
[...]
> So now we are left in a tough spot.  I'm open to suggestions about new hosts
> or how to proceed independently.

Eric,

One thing that occurred to me as a fairly uncontroversial move that
wouldn't require literally signatures from everyone, wouldn't change
the status quo IPR-wise (for better or worse), would be for TopicMaps.Org
to apply for non-profit status in the US or Europe. I don't think it
matters that much where, but this would allow our copyrights and
trademarks to continue to have a legal home that would continue to
be binding legally. We need to have a legal entity behind our copyrights
to enforce them. Regardless of whether there's ever any legal action
necessary to defend them, this sounds like a good idea.
 
We could still shop around for a standards body such as OASIS if we
really felt it necessary, but at least we'd have a legal basis for
continuing.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
XML Technology Center
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      In the evening
      The rice leaves in the garden
      Rustle in the autumn wind
      That blows through my reed hut.  -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu

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