<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am ready to cast my vote, but didn't yet see any response to my inquiry about the typos/wording in the document:<div><a href="http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/2009-December/019782.html">http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/2009-December/019782.html</a></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 1, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>This is to alert all that we have a significant shortfall in the vote re:<br>the IPR process. Votes are needed now.<br><br>Many members may not be aware of the very high bar set for changes of this<br>sort. A bit of history may be helpful. The discussion at the time was that<br>the founding members had put a fair amount of effort into drafting the<br>original documents and working out the necessary IP compromises, and they<br>did not want modification to be too easy.<br><br>As Nat suggests below there is a clear consensus that the proposed changes<br>are critically important to meet current needs. I urge you to vote now.<br>The poll URL is <a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/21">https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/21</a><br><br>Don Thibeau<br><a href="mailto:don@OIDF.org">don@OIDF.org</a><br>Executive Director<br>The OpenID Foundation<br>http://openid.net<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:22:01 +0900<br>From: Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp><br>Subject: [OpenID] Help us change the IPR Process so that we can create<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>WGs easier (was Vote Now)<br>To: openid-general@lists.openid.net<br>Message-ID: <4B147DC9.1030905@nri.co.jp><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"<br><br>Thanks very much Don.<br><br>We need to become able to spin up WGs much easier than now.<br>This IPR process change enable us to do so.<br>We badly need it to make us able to move forward for things like Authn <br>v.next, AX 1.1, 2.0, Artifact Binding etc.<br><br>Please do vote (in favour :-). The poll URL is<br><br>https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/21<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>=nat<br><br>(2009/12/01 11:03), Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Two important _all_ member activities are currently underway: the IPR <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Process revision voting and community board seat nominations. I <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">encourage you to make your views heard on these key issues for our <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">foundation.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IPR Process voting ends on the 4^th . Please vote today if you haven't <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">already done so. https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br>general@lists.openid.net<br>http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>