Re: [xri] Minutes of 9 January 2003 XRI TC

[James Bryce Clark <jbc@lawyer.com>]

At 08:30 PM 1/12/2003 -0800, Lindelsee, Mike
wrote:
> Everyone, please review these
> minutes at your earliest convenience for
> accuracy and ACTION items.  Please report errors by replying to
> this
> message.

    Hi Mike, thanks for doing the minutes.  
    I was the one who raised the question of whether RF
policy, which appears in some prior XRI docs and seems to be the intent
of most  initiators, also should be added to the charter. 
    The draft minutes note Karl Best's observation that
many TCs rely wholly on the OASIS IPR polices, which permit RAND, but
omit the next point discussed, i.e., that several that  have
successfully adopted stricter rules.   Incorporation of
RAND-limited tech may be appropriate in some standards -- that's a hot
issue in our industry right now, and one I do not propose to solve
here.  But I am fairly sure that, in our case, the KM resource
discovery scheme XRI contemplates must be wholly free of IPR 
restrictions to be successfully deployed.   
    As we deferred charter approval, I will move to amend
a RF requirement into the charter when it comes back to the agenda. 
    Regards    Jamie