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Subject: RE: [rights] TIME OUT, PLEASE
I too am unsure how the royalty-free issue came to be seen as the heart of the disagreements within the TC. For me the central issue is whether the term "rights-expression language" is going to be a misnomer or an inaccurate descriptor. --Mike At 9:34 AM -0400 9/24/02, DuCharme, Bob (LNG) wrote: >>> ...I believe that all of the problems can be boiled >>> down to this: Some of the members of the TC joined in >>> order to work on XrML, and others joined to work on what >>> they hoped would be an RF rights language.... > >>JSE: No, it isn't that simple. RF is an issue, critical for some, but >arguably >>even *more* critical is ensuring that the requirements of a broad, diverse >>constiuency are solicited, collected and considered, and that the best >possible >>rights expression language be created through an open authoring process. > >I strongly agree with John. RF/RAND issues are one aspect of the current >RLTC tension, but they're not the root of the problem. Those who joined the >TC's founders were told that a strategy and schedule were already in place, >and that this strategy was somehow in the charter (I still don't see where, >myself), and that it was therefore not their place to question it. They've >been accused, and I quote, of "dreaming" and "pretending" otherwise in the >last general meeting. Their frustration is understandable. > >Unlike some, I've carefully avoided using the phrase "rubber-stamp," which >to me implies turning XrML 2.1 into an OASIS standard. I still believe that >the original sponsors of the RLTC are open to changes to XrML on its way to >becoming an OASIS standard, and some ContentGuard representatives have been >very helpful in helping me determine changes that would fit my own company's >use cases. Still, I want to submit something more akin to an XrML 3.0 to the >OASIS body as a standard to vote on, not an XrML 2.2. I don't consider >throwing an XrML 2.2 requirements list over the wall to be a good start. >John has explained better than I can the steps that will be necessary to get >to a major upgrade of XrML that we can all be proud to call an OASIS rights >expression language. > >Bob DuCharme >Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis >Data Architecture, Editorial Systems and Content Engineering > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- "I speak the password primeval .... I give the sign of democracy ...." --Walt Whitman Mike Godwin can be reached by phone at 202-637-9800 His book, CYBER RIGHTS, can be ordered at http://www.panix.com/~mnemonic . --------------------------------------------------------------------
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