Re: PAC: IPR clause in CS 6

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

| I have appended below what appear to me to be the relevant
| passages of the OASIS IPR policy (modeled very closely on the IETF
| IPR policy and adopted by the OASIS board of directors last
| December).  Setting aside the question of what we may think of the
| adequacy of these provisions, it seems to me that this issue is
| already covered.  At the very least, it would appear that IPR is
| not a responsibility of the committee that creates a specification
| but rather of the OASIS board of directors.  I therefore suggest
| that we simply strike item 4 from our list of requirements.
| 
| Anyone disagree with this interpretation?

Sideways, yes.  The language drafted is faulty, as I argued long
ago now, in that it requires formal notice.  The IETF language
that OASIS counsel edited to arrive at this text requires the
relevant body to act on all information at its disposal, thus
avoiding the loophole created here that the Board can know of
something but close its eyes to it.  So this language should
be changed (back to the perfectly okay language the OASIS counsel
mucked up).

In either case, the TC members presumably have the relevant
info, and need to convey it to the Board.  So we can't simply
strike the item, I think.

And is it the Board that "advances the specification" under
our new process?

regards, Terry


| Jon
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