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

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Thanks a lot for your explanation! All clear!

David Recordon wrote:
> 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...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards 
>>  
>> Signer:  	Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org>
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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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