Board Agenda proposal from IPR committee

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@oracle.com>]

Comments regarding http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/board-agenda/201005/msg00000.html

-- regarding proposed lines 31-35: "substantive changes" is vague and undefined; the purpose of this modification is unclear. If the intention is that affiliation status is changed only after legal changes take place, it should say so: "until legal changes occur to the status by which..." Otherwise this is way too vague to mean anything.

-- lines 353, 364, 390, 426 use "and" when talking of  Final Deliverable and Final Maintenance Deliverable; on the other hand, lines 356, 393, 437, 445 use "or" when talking of them. May the Board please consider the inconsistent use of "and" and "or" and perhaps decide that, since a Final Maintenance Deliverable includes the Final Deliverable it maintains, the only proper use is "or" in this context.

-- the proposal to the Board includes a proposed date of "on or before July 31, 2010". How much before? What would preclude the Board from making it effective immediately? Perhaps the intention was to say "on or after July 31, 2010"?

-- further as regards the effective date: may the Board consider clarifying that the new IPR Policy will affect only TCs formed after the effective date of the new Policy, not retroactively to existing TCs.

Thank you.

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Eduardo Gutentag       
Director, Standards Strategy & Policy
Oracle Corporate Architecture Group

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