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Subject: [rights-requirements] need clarification of OASIS IP policies


Karl,
    Today a highly-contentious issue arose in our Rights Requirement subcommittee and it would be helpful to get an unambiguous answer from OASIS about the IP policy.  Content Guard contributed XrML as a starting point,  and at the same time disclosed that it was governed by several patents, but also stated its intent to license the patents under RAND terms (not yet spelled out).  No one doubts that Content Guard has complied with the OASIS procedures for IP disclosure.  The dispute is whether this disclosure binds the TC in any way in determining requirements for an OASIS Rights Expression Language.
    Some people assume that this contribution and disclosure implies that any work product of the TC is bound by Content Guard's intent, while other people have said that nothing prevents the TC from issuing a spec that is implementable on a royalty-free basis.  Clearly the TC can't tell Content Guard what terms it must offer, but is the TC at liberty to decide what kind of terms it wants its spec to have and to see if Content Guard will accommodate them?
    We need an official answer ASAP.  We don't have time to debate this inside the TC when the answer lies with OASIS.

Thanks
Bob Glushko

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Robert J. Glushko, Ph.D.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~glushko
School of Information Management & Systems
102 South Hall
University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-4600



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