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Subject: Fwd: [Closed] Re: WebCGM v2.0 Re-submission from OASIS to W3C
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:04:05 +0100
From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
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Subject: Fwd: [Closed] Re: WebCGM v2.0 Re-submission from OASIS to W3C
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This is a forwarded message
From: Matthieu Fuzellier <matthieu@w3.org>
To: patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org
Date: Monday, March 13, 2006, 5:49:14 PM
Subject: [Closed] Re: WebCGM v2.0 Re-submission from OASIS to W3C
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Hi Patrick, All,
The submission has been published on http://www.w3.org/Submission/
WebCGM 2.0 :http://www.w3.org/Submission/2006/01/
Submitted by Oasis Open on 23 December 2005
WebCGM 2.0 : http://www.w3.org/Submission/WebCGM20/
Published on 13 March 2006
W3C Staff Comment : http://www.w3.org/Submission/2006/01/Comment
Regards,
Matthieu
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 18:08 -0500, Patrick Gannon wrote:
>
> Submission request to W3C: WebCGM 2.0
> Submitted Materials
> We, W3C Member OASIS Open, hereby submit to the Consortium the
> following OASIS Committee Specification WebCGM version 2.0, comprising
> the following document(s) attached hereto:
>
>
> As HTML, conforming to W3C Member Submission model:
> [WebCGM-v2.0-submission.zip], containing:
> [Overview.html]
> [WebCGM20-TOC.html]
> [WebCGM20-Intro.html]
> [WebCGM20-Concepts.html]
> [WebCGM20-IC.html]
> [WebCGM20-XCF.html]
> [WebCGM20-DOM.html]
> [WebCGM20-Profile.html]
> [WebCGM20-Conf.html]
> [WebCGM20-ECMA.html]
> [WebCGM20-Appendix.html]
> Together with supporting graphic and stylesheet files
> As PDF, in original format approved as an OASIS Committee
> Specification:
> [WebCGM-v2.0.pdf ]
>
> which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the
> Submission be known as the WebCGM version 2.0 Submission.
>
> This Submission is made by OASIS on the basis of the Memorandum of
> Understanding between OASIS and W3C executed as of 16 December 2005,
> and also available at
> [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16009/w3c-oasis-cgm-final-051215.pdf] (herein, "2005 MoU"). The 2005 MoU also will serve as OASIS' member position statement.
>
>
> Abstract
> WebCGM — first published (1.0) in 1999 followed by a second (errata)
> release in 2001 — unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM
> utilization in Web document applications, and therefore represents a
> significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and
> implementers of the ISO CGM standard. WebCGM finds significant
> application especially in technical illustration, electronic
> documentation, and geophysical data visualization, amongst other
> application areas.
>
> WebCGM 2.0 adds a DOM (API) specification for programmatic access to
> WebCGM objects, and a specification of an XML Companion File (XCF)
> architecture, for externalization of non-graphical metadata. WebCGM
> 2.0, in addition, builds upon and extends the graphical and
> intelligent content of WebCGM 1.0, delivering functionality that was
> forecast for WebCGM 1.0, but was postponed in order to get the
> standard and its implementations to users expeditiously.
>
> The design criteria for WebCGM aim at a balance between graphical
> expressive power on the one hand, and simplicity and implementability
> on the other. A small but powerful set of standardized metadata
> elements supports the functionalities of hyperlinking and document
> navigation, picture structuring and layering, and enabling search and
> query of WebCGM picture content.
>
>
> Intellectual Property Statements
> The statements below concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks,
> and Patents, have been made by the Submitter, OASIS:
>
> 1. Patrick Gannon <patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org (OASIS)
>
> and by the following listed authors
>
> 1. Benoit Bezaire benoit@itedo.com (ITEDO)
> 2. David Cruikshank david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com (The Boeing
> Company)
> 3. Lofton Henderson lofton@rockynet.com
> Copyrights
> OASIS, Benoit Bezaire, David Cruikshank and Lofton Henderson hereby
> grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
> right and license under any [Submitter/Author] copyrights on this
> contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under
> the W3C document licenses.
>
> Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards
> a W3C Activity, OASIS, Benoit Bezaire, David Cruikshank and Lofton
> Henderson grant a right and license of the same scope to any
> derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating
> all or part of, the contribution.
>
> OASIS, Benoit Bezaire, David Cruikshank and Lofton Henderson further
> agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the
> W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C, except that any published
> version 2.x of the WebCGM specification shall carry both copyrights as
> specified in the 2005 MoU.
>
> OASIS retains its own copyright in the Submission as permitted by W3C
> policies (and certain relevant notices and disclaimers are set forth
> in the Submission). OASIS also notes that OASIS (as the successor in
> interest to the relevant rights of CGM Open Consortium Inc.) and W3C
> already share certain copyright claims in the 17 December 2001 W3C
> Recommendation entitled "WebCGM 1.0 Second Release" (herein, the "2001
> W3C REC"), as recited in the notices on the cover page thereof.
> Portions of that document are incorporated in the present Submission.
> Should the Submission not be used as a contribution towards a W3C
> Activity, revision and change control of the Submission shall remain
> with OASIS, as noted in the 2005 MoU.
>
>
> Trade and Service Marks (if any marks identified)
> The Submission does not to OASIS' knowledge refer to any registered
> trade or service marks. However, it is possible that the elements of
> the name of the work (CGM or WebCGM) would be deemed an unregistered
> mark by reason of their use. To the extent that this is true, such
> rights either would be shared by W3C and OASIS by reason of the
> pre-existing joint rights in the 2001 W3C REC, subject to such grants
> as CGMOpen then made, or would arise afterwards by reason of the OASIS
> activity.
>
> To the extent any such latter rights exist, OASIS agrees that any such
> trade and service marks that are associated with and identify this
> specific Submission will be governed by the W3C Trademark and
> Servicemark License, except that this Submission will not alter any
> OASIS shall retain its own (a) any published version 2.x of the WebCGM
> specification shall carry both copyrights as specified in the 2005
> MoU.
>
>
> Patents
> Patrick Gannon, representing OASIS
> OASIS believes that it holds no patents or applications of any
> kind relating to this work. Nevertheless, the organization I
> represent on the W3C Advisory Committee agrees to offer
> licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing
> requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C
> Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is
> subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
> Benoit Bezaire
> The organization I represent as a contributor to this
> Submission agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C
> Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of
> the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the
> Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C
> Recommendation.
> David Cruikshank
> The organization I represent as a contributor to this
> Submission agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C
> Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of
> the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the
> Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C
> Recommendation.
> Lofton Henderson
> The organization I represent as a contributor to this
> Submission agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C
> Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of
> the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the
> Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C
> Recommendation.
>
> In addition, OASIS notes that the specification was developed by the
> OASIS members of the WebCGM TC, who are listed in the Submission as
> contributors. OASIS informs W3C that:
>
> 1. The OASIS CGMOpen WebCGM TC operates under the IPR Mode "RF w/
> Limited Terms" under the OASIS IPR Policy.
> 2. All members of the TC have signed an OASIS Membership
> Agreement.
> 3. That agreement, taken together with their participation in the
> TC, obligates them to honor that RF on Limited Terms mode.
> 4. That agreement requires compliance with the IPR Policy, which
> requires disclosure of any "essential claims".
> 5. No such essential claims have been disclosed to OASIS.
> 6. If any such claims arise in the future, the IPR Policy
> obligates TC members to offer licenses to the world under the
> terms specified by the RF on Limited Terms mode.
> Required proprietary technology
> To OASIS' knowledge, there is no proprietary technology required to
> implement the Submission.
>
>
> Suggested action
> This submission is made at the request of the OASIS CGMOpen WebCGM
> Technical Committee and its members, who have indicated a desire to
> have the work's current version progressed as a W3C Recommendation as
> well as an OASIS Standard. OASIS submits it for the purposes, and with
> the intent and terms, stated in the 2005 MoU, which generally
> contemplates forming a W3C Working Group, working to advance the
> Submission to W3C Recommendation status, and thereafter,
> re-contribution for approval as an OASIS Standard, all subject to the
> applicable rules of the respective consortia and the provisions of the
> 2005 MoU.
>
>
> Resources
> As noted in the 2005 MoU, substantially all of the editors and members
> of the OASIS TC also are available and willing to serve as
> participating W3C members on the Working Group to be chartered to
> advance the work at W3C.
>
>
> Contact
> Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be
> directed to: Patrick J. Gannon, OASIS President & CEO, or Carol Geyer,
> OASIS Director of Communications.
>
>
> Submitted
> this 24th day of February, 2006
>
> Patrick Gannon
> President & CEO
> OASIS
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> Billerica, MA 01821
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> www.oasis-open.org
>
>
>
>
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Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
W3C Graphics Activity Lead
Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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