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<DIV>Again - as the new guy...</DIV>
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<DIV>It gives me a pretty thorough understanding of what's expected.</DIV>
<DIV>With regards to your Open Issue (2), Since it is from the community perspective would it not be appropriate to have;</DIV>
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<DIV>(obviously my text will require some tweaking ....)</DIV>
<DIV>"When in doubt - Bring to our attention the possibility of a conflict at the earliest time"</DIV>
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<DIV>As a a follow-up question - and I am assuming it is a "legal" question - but does the act of disclosing a conflict / possible conflict have any possible side-effect along the lines of disclosing commercial-in-confidence information etc?</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> "Recordon, David" <drecordon@verisign.com> Thursday, December 07, 2006 06:42 >>><BR>Hey guys,<BR>Been working with Gabe, and others, on starting to draft an IPR Policy<BR>for OpenID specifications. We'd appreciate feedback in terms of if what<BR>is written captures the correct intent of the community? We realize the<BR>language isn't technically as tight as it needs to be, though first want<BR>to make sure it is saying the right thing. It is largely based on the<BR>IPR Policy for Microformats.<BR><BR><A href="http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/IPR_Policy">http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/IPR_Policy</A><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>--David<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>general mailing list<BR>general@openid.net<BR><A href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general</A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>