[legal] [OpenID] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Review

[David Recordon]

Hey Eddy,
The reason behind splitting work into working groups is to allow  
contributors to make decisions as to the areas they wish to  
participate.  As the policy requires contributors make promises  
around their intellectual property for OpenID specifications, we want  
to allow for these promises to be scoped to a given specification.   
This is common practice within standards organizations so that larger  
companies can better keep track of how a particular specification may  
effect their patent portfolio.

--David

On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Even so you explained below reasonable, allow me a question:
>
> Why is there a need to have different policies for Authentication  
> and Attribute Exchange and what would this practically mean?  
> Specially this two drafts are extremely important to OpenID in my  
> opinion. What would be the implications for implementers of this  
> (current in draft) specifications? Or does this only affect future  
> contributers? Tanks upfront for your clarification on this...
>
>
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> David Recordon wrote:
>>   - Once the policy is adopted, specification work will be broken up
>> into "working groups" based upon a topic.  For example Authentication
>> and Attribute Exchange will most likely become two working groups
>> with each group having its own specs-<foo>@openid.net mailing list.
>> This is to allow for IPR promises from the larger companies which may
>> not wish to participate in every OpenID community effort.
>

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