[xslt-conformance] New IPR committee requirements

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Fellow members,

Please review the message received this morning from Karl Best at OASIS.

Carmelo: we will need a new section of our web site titled "Intellectual 
Property Rights", and I'm assuming that for now we can state "No 
encumbrances have been reported by any members."

Pranav, Dave, and Carmelo: I think an explicit post from each of you that 
there are no IPR encumbrances on each of your test file submissions.

Stan: we need an update to the submissions document that all submissions 
need to be accompanied by an explicit statement (and/or a post to the mail 
list that is automatically archived) that there are no IPR encumbrances 
with the contributions made by a submitter.  Is this something you can help 
with?

I will likewise post a notice that I have no IPR issues with the 
stylesheets I've developed for use in the project.

Thanks for your prompt help with this!

.................... Ken

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OASIS TC chairs and vice-chairs:

As you probably noticed we had a bit of controvery last week over IP
related to OASIS TC work. In that context I'm sure that you'll agree
that we need better identification of the IP related to the technical
work that our TCs are pursuing.

The OASIS IPR Policy states that at the time contributions are made to
OASIS the contributor must disclose any IP encumbrances (patents,
trademarks, etc.) associated with that contribution, and promise (at
least) RAND licensing for any encumbrances. Furthermore, at the time the
specification is completed and advanced to OASIS members these
encumbrances must be identified to members so that they can make a
decision, having full knowledge, regarding approval of the spec.

In order to achieve full disclosure so that TC members and other OASIS
members may work with full knowledge, it is very important that all IP
encumbrances associated with the technical work of your TC be
identified. Please obtain statements from known contributors, and also
query your TC members to find out what other encumbrances they may know
about. As you obtain IP statements these should be placed on your TC web
page in a section called "Intellectual Property Rights". (See the XACML,
XCBF, CPPA, and SAML TC web pages for examples.)

I cannot stress enough how important this is. If IP encrumbrances are
not identified the future of your work could be placed in doubt, as we
saw last week.

The following are contributions of which I am aware; I suspect that
there are more. At a minimum we need statements for these contributions.
Please make this a priority over the coming weeks.

BTP TC: contributions from BEA, Choreology, HP
CIQ TC: contributions from MasterSoft, AND
DSML TC: contributions of DSML v1 from Access360, iPlanet,
      Microsoft, Novell, Verisign
Election TC: contributions from election.com?
HumanMarkup TC: contributions from humanmarkup.org?
XLIFF TC: contributions of XLIFF v1 from Novell, Oracle, etc.
Provisioning TC: contributions of ITML, XRPM, ADpr
Rights TC: contributions of XRML from ContentGuard
RELAX NG TC: contributions of TREX, RELAX
SAML TC: contributions of AuthML, S2ML
UBL TC: contributions of xCBL from CommerceOne
WSIA, WSRP TC: contributions of WSXL, WSUI from IBM
XSLT Conf TC: contributions of test suites


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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
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karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org

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