Re: [emergency-adopt] Agenda Item for Next Meeting: Sponsoringand Maintaining Reference Implementations

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Mary,

I wasn't aware of that and I didn't think about IPR given that 
SourceForge is open source, and their requirements are intended to 
protect projects from being hijacked. However, I understand and I'm 
also perfectly happy to provide it to the TC for an OASIS  hosting.

Cheers,
Rex

At 8:39 PM -0400 5/15/09, Mary McRae wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   I just wanted to chime in - no TC work can be done on SourceForge 
>- the licensing is incompatible with the OASIS IPR Policy. You can 
>manage code in an OASIS-hosted SVN repository. The question of 
>whether the current charter would support the 
>development/maintenance of a reference implementation is another 
>question.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mary
>
>Mary P McRae
>Director, Standards Development
>Technical Committee Administrator
>OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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>Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.
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>On May 15, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Rex Brooks wrote:
>
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>With our pate as full as it was today, I decided not to introduce 
>>this topic today. So I would like to propose it for our next 
>>meeting's agenda:
>>
>>Should we include reference implementations of EM Standards on 
>>SourceForge as part of our charter. I have an EDXL-RM Reference 
>>Implementation that is 95% done and I am looking for a suitable 
>>group to which I can hand if off.
>>
>>This is a lead up to a proposal that the EM TC sponsor reference 
>>implementations for each of its standards as a way to provide an 
>>example for all implementations such that whatever set of a 
>>standard's features a vendor decides to implement within an 
>>application, an example will be available which the vendor can use 
>>as a starting point to build upon. This would also serve to help 
>>such third-parties as the NIMS Support Center to provide testing 
>>services to certify interoperability of vendor applications.
>>
>>So, this would serve as a way to encourage adoption and develop 
>>higher levels of interoperability than would be possible without 
>>reference implementations. I think this requires serious thought 
>>and discussion because it represents a significant investment of 
>>future time and effort.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Rex
>>
>>--
>>Rex Brooks
>>President, CEO
>>Starbourne Communications Design
>>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
>>Berkeley, CA 94702
>>Tel: 510-898-0670
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Rex Brooks
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Starbourne Communications Design
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Berkeley, CA 94702
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