Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Web Services Basic and Reliable Secure Profiles (WS-BRSP) Technical Committee

[Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>]

hi ram,
    Would you please explain what you mean when u say that we will  
have counsel discussing rather than having the work moving forward.

    It takes  5 individuals from 2 OASIS organizational members to  
propose a charter which kicks off a 30 day discussion period. I'm  
guessing its going to be another 2 months before we get to a Call for  
Participation. So if you think the IPR mode needs to be discussed,  
then that can certainly go in parallel.

    Please explain the complications that will arise, so that we can  
discuss them.
       So far I haven't heard of any complications.
cheers,
   jeff
On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Ram Jeyaraman wrote:

> Dear WS-I Member Section Steering Committee members,
>
> I reviewed the proposed Charter (attached) for Basic Profiles (1.1,  
> 1.2, and 2.0) and Reliable Secure Profile (1.0) and would like to  
> flag one concern regarding compatibility with existing WS-I works.
>
> The WS-I Deliverables were developed under the WS-I governance  
> documents[1], which used a standard “RAND” commitment from the  
> participants[2]. The draft Charter[3], however, specifies the OASIS  
> Non-Assert Mode for the continuing work, which means that the  
> continuing work in OASIS would be appended to the existing work on  
> different legal terms from the original. In maintenance mode there  
> are usually fewer concerns about intellectual property than with  
> full specifications, but it still makes no sense to break the WS-I  
> terms.
>
> It would be better, I think, to maintain the consistency; I am not  
> aware of any problems or objections of any kind to the IPR mode that  
> applies to WS-I deliverables, and I am concerned that using the  
> OASIS Non-Assert when WS-I was using RAND will create unnecessary  
> problems. If we change the IPR mode at this point, we’ll have  
> counsel discussing IPR modes when it would be better simply to keep  
> the work moving forward. It would be much simpler, and it will avoid  
> unnecessary complications, if we apply the same IPR terms to the new  
> work as to the existing work. The OASIS mode that appears to do this  
> best is RAND.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://www.ws-i.org/about/governance.aspx
> [2] http://www.ws-i.org/docs/Membership/20040505.WS-IIPRAgreement.pdf
> [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-i-ms/201103/msg00009.html
> <WS-I BP-RSP Charter 03-26-2011.pdf>
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