[OpenID board] The Specs Council and Process (WAS: Re: Executive Committee meeting 12/18/2008 ...)

[Dick Hardt]

On 17-Dec-08, at 11:28 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
>> I take it you didn't have to personally "figure out the IPR  
>> afterwards"...
>>
>
> That's actually my point. There are lots of folks for whom the IPR  
> stuff
> isn't a concern for one reason or another. Those folks shouldn't be
> prevented from getting on with stuff while those who *do* care about  
> IPR
> are figuring it out.
>
> That's exactly what happened with OpenID 2.0. Lots of folks had it
> implemented long before the IPR was done.
>
> If I author a spec then I'm quite happy to sign an IPR non-assert  
> where
> necessary, but the current process is far heavier than that and isn't
> really helping anyone because folks are just writing and implementing
> specs outside of the IPR framework because the IPR framework stops  
> them
> actually getting any work done.

It is MUCH more effort to figure out the IPR afterwards.

IPR is NOT the roadblock in creating WGs. As David mentions, the  
process is currently far to heavy. We need to make it simpler and  
easily understood.

-- Dick