Re: [oasis-charter-discuss] RE: [MOX] Proposed Charter for OASISSemantic Mapping of XML (MOX) TC

[William Cox <wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com>]

Dennis --

Good points on potential adoption. There's also an issue with confusion 
in the marketplace, and a RAND spec competing with perhaps less worthy 
but less restrictive RF specs.

But note that RF can still have onerous terms that many open source 
projects would find unacceptable.

bill cox

Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> It has come to my attention that "RF on Limited Terms" is even more specific
> with regard to what is to be understood from the very beginning.  I would
> think that is also worthy of consideration for an integrative technology
> across widely-used public specifications. 
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/200809/msg00018.h
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 13:32
> To: oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: 'Sabbouh, Marwan'
> Subject: [oasis-charter-discuss] RE: [MOX] Proposed Charter for OASIS
> Semantic Mapping of XML (MOX) TC
>
> I find it disturbing that the IPR mode is "RAND" instead of "RF on RAND."
>
> MOX promises improved support for web service composition (and mashups) and
> it would be weird to have implementations at this level be subject to IP
> licensing, inserting a toll booth into the WS stack.  
>
> If the idea is to promote adoption and wide use of a WMSL-based scripting
> language, I would hope that Mitre Corporation (and anyone else) does not
> expect to extract licenses; that should be established at the outset.  If
> that makes participation uninteresting, it would be good to sort that out
> now too.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> Dennis E. Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sabbouh, Marwan [mailto:ms@mitre.org] 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/200809/msg00017.h
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> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 07:42
> To: oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org; claus.von.riegen@sap.com
> Cc: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Subject: AW: [oasis-charter-discuss] Proposed Charter for OASIS Semantic
> Mapping of XML (MOX) TC
>
> [ ... ]
>
> As to the IPR mode, our employers facilitate our participation in
> standards committees if RAND is chosen. 
>
> Sincerely,
> Marwan
>
> [ ... ]
>
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