<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">+3 then... or +10 more likely...<br><br>As always, David and Gabe have been very dedicated. Additionally, I very much want to publicly thank the many dedicated colleagues and individuals at Microsoft, Sun, Yahoo!, Symantec, AOL, Verisign and elsewhere who have put a huge amount of effort into this daunting task. Thanks very much to everyone.<br><br>Now, let the review begin.<br><br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Snorri <snorri@snorri.eu><br>To: Gabe Wachob <gabe.wachob@amsoft.net>; david@sixapart.com; legal@openid.net<br>Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:43:46
AM<br>Subject: Re: [legal] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Review<br><br><div>The second! ;-)<br>+1<br><br>That's great! <br><br>-----Message d'origine-----<br>De : legal-bounces@openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces@openid.net] De la part<br>de Gabe Wachob<br>Envoyé : mercredi 26 septembre 2007 19:11<br>À : david@sixapart.com; legal@openid.net<br>Objet : Re: [legal] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy for<br>Review<br><br>Let me the first to give a big +1<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: legal-bounces@openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces@openid.net] On Behalf<br>> Of David Recordon<br>> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:35 AM<br>> To: legal@openid.net<br>> Cc: general@openid.net<br>> Subject: [legal] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property Rights Policy for<br>> Review<br>> <br>> Since the early summer we've been working to define an intellectual<br>> property
rights policy and process for technical OpenID specification<br>> work moving forward. The goal of this work is to truly allow the<br>> community to continue to live up to Brad Fitzpatrick's original<br>> "nobody should own this" statement. As the community has grown this<br>> year to include participation of larger companies, the desire to make<br>> this statement a reality from a legal perspective has been quite<br>> strong. To achieve this, a group of representatives from the OpenID<br>> Foundation, AOL, Microsoft, VeriSign, Sun, Symantec, and Yahoo!<br>> worked to help draft and review a policy and related documents basing<br>> the work upon similar policies from the IETF, OASIS, W3C, and Liberty<br>> Alliance. Today we're asking for review of this work for thirty days<br>> so that before the end of the year we as a community can adopt the<br>> policy and release the
OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification final<br>> version under it.<br>> <br>> As to the question of "What does this mean to me", there are a few<br>> answers:<br>> - If you are using/implementing OpenID there is nothing that you<br>> need to do to be protected by this policy. All future work will be<br>> covered by it and the policy includes provisions to retroactively<br>> apply the non-assertion covenant to OpenID Authentication 1.1, OpenID<br>> Simple Registration 1.0, and Yadis 1.0.<br>> - If you have actively contributed to one of the OpenID<br>> specifications (especially if you have written text for 2.0) we will<br>> be contacting you proactively over the next month for feedback on the<br>> policy and asking you to agree to it. This will thus allow us as a<br>> community to release the 2.0 specification this year under the policy.<br>> - Once
the policy is adopted, specification work will be broken up<br>> into "working groups" based upon a topic. For example Authentication<br>> and Attribute Exchange will most likely become two working groups<br>> with each group having its own specs-<foo>@openid.net mailing list.<br>> This is to allow for IPR promises from the larger companies which may<br>> not wish to participate in every OpenID community effort. Before<br>> posting to one of these working group lists for the first time, you<br>> will be required to agree to the policy. This will ensure that all<br>> formal contributions to the final specifications are covered by the<br>> policy and the resulting spec does not have any known IPR encumbrances.<br>> <br>> As part of this effort, we've also drafted a rationale document to<br>> help explain some of the "design decisions" the group made.<br>> Generally I recommend
you read that document (it is free from<br>> legalese) and it can be found at <a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/ipr/">http://openid.net/ipr/</a><br>> OpenID_IPR_Rationale-Circulation_Draft_20070925.pdf. The policy and<br>> process documents themselves can be found at <a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/ipr/">http://openid.net/ipr/</a>.<br>> (I apologize for the PDFs, we'll get these up in HTML format before<br>> they're final). If you didn't see your question answered in this<br>> email, please do look at the rationale document as it hopefully will<br>> already be answered there.<br>> <br>> We've tried to keep the policy and process as simple as possible<br>> while still giving the needed legal protections and are looking for<br>> feedback around the process. One thing to keep in mind is that the<br>> process is based on consensus (much like the IETF or ASF) and many
of<br>> the clauses only apply in the case that consensus is impossible to<br>> reach (which is viewed as being quite rare). There is also still<br>> some word-smithing which is needed, so anyplace it seems like we<br>> meant to say the "OpenID Foundation" instead of "OpenID", we probably<br>> meant to. :)<br>> <br>> We realize this is a lot to process, but have tried our best to<br>> represent the views of a wide range of companies with varying IPR<br>> positions as well as the values of this community. We're certainly<br>> interested in feedback and questions, ideally within the next thirty<br>> days sent to legal@openid.net. Differing from many discussions, even<br>> if all you have to say is "+1" that is valuable feedback so that we<br>> can know if we're on the right track. Please also feel free to<br>> contact me off-list if there are any questions or concerns
you have<br>> that you don't wish to discuss publicly though we certainly encourage<br>> this discussion to happen on the list.<br>> <br>> Thanks again to everyone who has been involved in this work!<br>> <br>> --David<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> legal mailing list<br>> legal@openid.net<br>> <a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>legal mailing list<br>legal@openid.net<br><a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>legal mailing list<br>legal@openid.net<br><a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/legal</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>