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<div>Darn, I started reviewing the document and got sidetracked. Glancing over the document, it looks complex, but generally in line with what we have discussed. </div><div><br></div><div>Ideally the IPR Committee would have posted the complete set of documents on the public site and announced them to the OpenID Community to get Community feedback.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I wonder about giving notice of formal votes: if a member has a "legal contact", notice is supposed to be sent there. Does this mean that postal mail is sent if it is a physical address? This could be very cumbersome for providing notice for votes</div><div><br></div><div>-- Dick</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 20-Dec-07, at 12:54 AM, Mike Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Strangely, I’ve seen no comments on these drafts, either positive or negative. Does that mean that the OIDF board is ready to vote them final as is, that discussion is occurring in other forums, or that people have disengaged for the holidays and we’ve given up on finishing the IPR work this year?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> -- Mike<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Daggett, David [<a href="mailto:david.daggett@klgates.com">mailto:david.daggett@klgates.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:27 PM<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>OpenID - Revised Drafts of IPR Policy and Process Document<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>PLEASE NOTE: You were BCC'd</b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:legal@openid.net">legal@openid.net</a><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scott@kveton.com; dick@sxip.com; drecordon@sixapart.com; drummond.reed@cordance.net; jernst@netmesh.us; gabe.wachob@amsoft.net; sky@crucially.net; bill@oidf.org<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">To all, revised drafts of the IPR Policy and Process document are attached. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions regarding the attached.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">David K. 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