[OpenID board] Revised local chapters policy

[Nat Sakimura]

Hi Mike,

Below is from my original Chapter Policy Manuscript, which seems to be 
much too robust for acceptance.
However, it does contain such criterias: Specifically, National Chapters 
must fulfil III-2, III-3:

*       III-2.       **Intellectual Property*

**

*                *The National Chapters are required to secure the fair 
use of trademarks and other intellectual property
                 in the jurisdiction for the OpenID Community with a 
commercially reasonable effort.  **

*III-3.       **Translation*

                        i.       The National Chapters are required to 
provide the translation of then current OpenID Specifications and the 
IPR documents in the local language.* *

                      ii.       The National Chapters are required to 
assist the communication of the Local Chapter Members with the Working 
Groups by setting up a local language mailing list parallel to the OIDF 
Working Group mailing lists.


III-2 especially, requires a single entity to be doing this, since 
otherwise, it will result in a chaos. This probalby is the most 
important reason for having a single National Chapter.

Also, IMHO, a National chapter should conduct a preliminary survay of 
local patents for the possible infringement of those by OpenID 
specificatioin. This is a rather costly operation and best dealt at one 
entity for the economic reason. Probably, this should be added to III-2 
as well.

Nat


Original text are as below:---

*II.               **Duties of a Local Chapter*

1.        *Intellectual Property*
The chapters must agree that their activities will be for the purpose of 
supporting the adoptions and the usage of OpenID. They must agree that 
any intellectual property or trademarks developed or held by the local 
chapter must be available freely for the OpenID Community for the fair use.

2.        *Activities*
Each Local Chapter must engage in the following activities:

                        i.       Annual General Meeting

                      ii.       Annual Report Publishing

                    iii.       Web site which is enabled with OpenID 
Authentication.

*3.       **Autonomous Financing
*The chapters must operate autonomously without any financial support 
from OIDF.**

*4.       **Membership Management
*Local Chapters must maintain the list of the Local Chapter Members. **

 

*III.           **Obligations of a National Chapter*

In addition to the above Local Chapters duties, National Chapters are 
required to fulfill the following obligations.

*1.       **Form
*Although it is not required to be registered as a non-profit 
organization, a National Chapter must be a non-profit for its purpose. **

*2.       **Intellectual Property
*The National Chapters are required to secure the fair use of trademarks 
and other intellectual property in the jurisdiction for the OpenID 
Community with a commercially reasonable effort.  **

*3.       **Translation*

                        i.       The National Chapters are required to 
provide the translation of then current OpenID Specifications and the 
IPR documents in the local language.* *

                      ii.       The National Chapters are required to 
assist the communication of the Local Chapter Members with the Working 
Groups by setting up a local language mailing list parallel to the OIDF 
Working Group mailing lists.



Mike Jones wrote:
>
> Nat and Snorri, since you're the ones advocating OIDF having the 
> concept of designated national chapters, I'm going to first ask you to 
> take a stab at answering Dick's question.  I agree with him that 
> having a designation but no criteria for the board to make that 
> designation nor any definition of how the OIDF should treat a 
> designated national chapter any differently than any other local 
> chapter is a recipe for future problems.
>
>  
>
> Summarizing, I think the questions are:
>
>   - What criteria will be used to decide which application is granted 
> the national chapter if there is more then one applicant?
>
>   - Does the OIDF treat designated national chapters any differently 
> than other chapters, and if so, how?
>
>  
>
>                                                 Thanks,
>
>                                                 -- Mike
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] *On 
> Behalf Of *Dick Hardt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:28 PM
> *To:* board at openid.net
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] Revised local chapters policy
>
>  
>
>     *_12 - Territories_*
>
>     *OIDF will recognize any proposed eligible Local Chapters,
>     regardless of the geographic scope of the chapter, including
>     chapters with overlapping territories and missions.  Chapters
>     organized at the nation state level may apply to the OIDF to be
>     recognized as the OIDF-designated national chapter.  OIDF will
>     recognize at most one chapter as the designated national chapter
>     in a nation-state at any time.*
>
>     * *
>
>  
>
> What criteria will be used to decide which application is granted the 
> national chapter if there is more then one applicant?
>
>  
>
> If the national chapter leadership is lacking and another group wants 
> to take over, how is that done?
>
>  
>
> These are very subjective / political criteria that I think would be 
> best for the OIDF to stay out of if possible.
>
>  
>
> -- Dick
>
>  
>
>  
>

-- 
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. 
XDI.ORG Vice Chair

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