[OpenID] Yadis IPR

[Drummond Reed]

Johannes,

One thought: the Yadis spec has now been incorporated into the XRI
Resolution 2.0 spec, the final draft of which is coming out this week. The
Yadis section, titled "Discovering an XRDS Document from an HTTP(S) URI", is
section 6. It has been stable since Working Draft 11 Editor's Draft 05, see:

	
Http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25307/xri-resolution-v2.0-
wd-11-ed-05.pdf 

Per our discussions last spring, our action item is to have the Yadis
contributors send a letter to the OASIS XRI TC. When I talked to OASIS
staff, they said it was simply a matter of each contributor sending an email
to the TC acknowledging the contribution.

We should do this right away, since we plan to hold the vote on the XRI
Resolution 2.0 spec (which will become Committee Draft 02) week after next,
so it can be referenced by the OpenID Authentication 2.0 spec when it goes
final after the OpenID IPR policy is approved.

Do you have a list of the contributors? If so, you and I can compose the
email to send to them and have them reply to to acknowledge the
contribution. I'm travelling today, but feel free to call my cell to discuss
any details.

Thanks,

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:15 AM
> To: OpenID List
> Subject: [OpenID] Yadis IPR
> 
> Now that we're getting a well-thought-out intellectual property
> regime for OpenID, I have been asked "what about Yadis"?
> 
> I would suggest we move the Yadis work under the OpenID Foundation's
> umbrella as well and retroactively consider it as-if it had been
> performed there. This would allow us to apply the same IPR to it.
> 
> Certainly the guilty parties ;-) aka authors and contributors are
> largely the same.
> 
> Anybody have any thoughts on this?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
>