[legal] OpenID - Revised Drafts of IPR Policy and Process Document

[Bill Washburn]

I feel it is now fully incumbent on us to be decisive and declare the IPR documents approved. Certainly now the Board would not be remiss to vote the IPR done and approved with nothing more to do beyond ensuring we get all the nitty-gritty details, like "legal contact" and such, clearly sorted out.

I also feel that we've made a supremely conscientious effort to keep the community informed and welcome to make any comments since last September when the substance of the IPR documents were made available for public vetting.  From my perspective at least it seems evident the paucity of recent comments reflects a sense that all of this work was rather well received and digested some time ago by the community of interested observers.  

Now it is time to take the Foundation public and announce we are officially ready to proceed.

cheers,
-bill


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From: Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com>
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Subject: Re: [legal] OpenID - Revised Drafts of IPR Policy and Process Document



Darn, I started reviewing the document and got sidetracked. Glancing over the document, it looks complex, but generally in line with what we have discussed. 


Ideally the IPR Committee would have posted the complete set of documents on the public site and announced them to the OpenID Community to get Community feedback.


I wonder about giving notice of formal votes: if a member has a "legal contact", notice is supposed to be sent there. Does this mean that postal mail is sent if it is a physical address? This could be very cumbersome for providing notice for votes


-- Dick


On 20-Dec-07, at 12:54 AM, Mike Jones wrote:

Strangely, I’ve seen no comments on these drafts, either positive or negative.  Does that mean that the OIDF board is ready to vote them final as is, that discussion is occurring in other forums, or that people have disengaged for the holidays and we’ve given up on finishing the IPR work this year?
  
                                                                -- Mike
  
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