<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks Johannes<br><br>I happily agree in principle with you. Yet, I have long sought to remember the observation of the early 20th century Oxford philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who said something along the lines of:<br><br>Seek simplicity and distrust it.<br><br>And there is always Albert Einstein who agreed with you when he said:<br><br>Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.<br><br>...just a bit of ancient commentary for the morning caffine break...<br><br>warmest thanks,<br>-bill<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Johannes Ernst <jernst@netmesh.us><br>To: board@openid.net<br>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:23:35
AM<br>Subject: Re: [OpenID board] [SPAM] Re: IPR Policy and Process Proposal<br><br><div>On Apr 23, 2007, at 22:12, Bill Washburn wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style=""><div style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I feel you are asking a very reasonable question about how to proceed with crafting and distributing a "plain English version" of the IPR policy when everything is more of less complete.</span></font><br style=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I think I'm asking for both. As everybody knows, I firmly reside in the "light-weight but powerful" camp, whether that be protocols or legalese ;-) It may be nobody knows how to make it have less weight (including myself), but that doesn't mean nobody should raise the question of whether there is a way to do that.</div><div><br
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Johannes.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
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