<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I know people get frustrated because they want to just do stuff.<div><br></div><div>However the IPR process and agreements protect everyone from someone coming along later and asserting patents after people have built products.</div><div><br></div><div>Everyone who wants to work on Connect should start the process of joining the WG now and not wait.</div><div><br></div><div>John B.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2010-07-12, at 9:30 PM, Eric Sachs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">>> <meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">People who work for large companies may take some time to get approva</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">To put it mildly :-(<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, John Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.bradley@wingaa.com">john.bradley@wingaa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The charter was approved.<br>
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The next step is for people to get there IPR agreements in and start the work.<br>
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I don't know if David has his in yet.<br>
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People who work for large companies may take some time to get approval.<br>
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Regards<br>
John B.<br>
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On 2010-07-12, at 4:39 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Eric Sachs <<a href="mailto:esachs@google.com">esachs@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> A whole bunch of Yahoo and Google folks are on vacation in July and August,<br>
>> and during the time they are working they are probably going to focus on<br>
>> finalizing OAuth 2.0. So my bet is we won't have a lot of activity on the<br>
>> mailing list until late August. However David Recordon said he might have<br>
>> time in a few weeks to start pulling together some material.<br>
><br>
> Backing up a bit, ... was there a management decision in the<br>
> Foundation to proceed with a Connect WG? Or that mailing list activity<br>
> would be towards putting together a refined proposal? How do things<br>
> work here?<br>
><br>
> Dan<br>
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