RE: [spectools] IPR statements and OASIS specs

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Eve:

I agree that the IP statement should stay on the web page, but a pointer
should be in the spec document. Your suggestion is just about right for
length and content, but since this is a template we could make it more
generic:

"One or more patents or other claims of intellectual property rights
have been disclosed whose use may be essential to implementing this
specification. See the Intellectual Property Rights section of the
Technical Committee's web page for disclosure of these patents and any
offers of patent licensing terms."

This would be an optional statement of course, as not all specs will
have IP claims.


</karl>
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Karl F. Best
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 7:00 PM
> To: spectools@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [spectools] IPR statements and OASIS specs
>
>
> I'm just trying to figure out how to alert readers of the SAML specs
> about the patents that have been disclosed on SAML.  What do
> you folks
> think of the following suggestions for boilerplate text?  If you like
> them, Norm and I could put this in the sample docs...
>
> 	Eve
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [security-services] RSA Security IPR statement
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:56:25 -0400
> From: "Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>
> To: "Philpott, Robert" <rphilpott@rsasecurity.com>
>
> Philpott, Robert wrote:
> ...
>  > Would it be cleaner to just stick it in
>  > an appendix of each document?
>  >
>  > Just a thought... In case you haven't already done this,
> perhaps an
> appendix
>  > for IPR statements should be in the OASIS template you
> built. I'd hate to
>  > clutter up the documents with full IPR letters from any
> and all companies
>  > with IP - fortunately SAML's just got this one.  The best
> solution in my
>  > mind would be to have a brief, standard boilerplate
> statement approved by
>  > OASIS in the appendix and reference back to the
> appropriate committee web
>  > page at the OASIS site.  Is this what OASIS is thinking
> also or are they
>  > sticking in the entire statement from the company?
>
> I don't know if they had really gotten that far in their thinking.  I
> think it's probably not a good idea to put the actual text of the
> letter/statement in the spec, for more than just space reasons.  For
> example, RSAS changed its text once already, and it's free to do so
> again.  Also, new statements might be made by other companies later,
> even after SAML becomes an OASIS Standard.  So it's probably best to
> have standard boilerplate, as you say, with a link.
>
> The next question is where to put the boilerplate.  There are two
> obvious possibilities: an appendix and the Status on the
> title page.  If
> the boilerplate is fairly modest in size, I think the Status
> section is
> best, since IPR concerns can materially affect the status of a
> specification.  Here is the kind of text I can see putting in:
>
>     "One or more patents have been disclosed whose use may be
> essential
> to implementing this specification. See the Intellectual
> Property Rights
> section of the Security Services web page
> (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security) for
> disclosure of these
> patents and any offers of patent licensing terms."
>
> Oh, and in the case of specs for which no patents have been disclosed
> yet, there should perhaps still be something like this:
>
>     "See the Intellectual Property Rights section of the xxx
> TC web page
> (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xxxTC) for information on the
> disclosure of any patents that may be essential to implementing this
> specification and any offers of patent licensing terms."
>
> This seems small enough for the Status section.  What do you think?
>
> (By the way, I note that the first paragraph in the Notices appendix
> talks about getting IPR information, but it's too general and too
> boilerplate-ish to really convey much to the casual reader...)
>
> 	Eve
>
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> Eve Maler                                    +1 781 442 3190
> Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center   eve.maler @ sun.com
>
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