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

[Dick Hardt]

On 17-Dec-08, at 11:58 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Dick Hardt wrote:
>>
>> It is MUCH more effort to figure out the IPR afterwards.
>>
>
> Perhaps, but if that's the only way that actually works then maybe we
> just need to accept that. Can you cite a single example (from this
> community) of a published spec that had the IPR work done ahead of  
> time?
> I can't think of one.

That does not mean we should not fix it.

> It seems to me that front-loading technical work with legal stuff is  
> not
> compatible with this community's culture.

The IPR is not the problem. I sit on the specs council. I think we  
suck so far there on turning things around in a reasonable time.