Open License Expression Working Group Charter in Development (Advance Notice)

Hello

This is an advance notice that the Team is currently working with Members
and the public on a proposed charter for an Open License Expression
Working Group:
     http://w3c.github.io/ole/charter.html

The expectation is to take the ODRL Community Group Final Specifications
[1] through the W3C standardization process.

A license expression system will provide a flexible and interoperable
information model that supports transparent and innovative (re)use of
digital content across all sectors and communities. It is composed of
detailed terms that are both machine-processable and expressible in a form
for human-consumption.

Allowable actions, constraints, and requirements that need to be met are
expressed at a level enabling complex and business-specific expressions to
be created from a vocabulary with specific semantics. This form of license
expression accommodates a broad range of licenses and addresses a
different business/user need than systems such as Creative Commons that
provide a small number of specific licenses.

The draft charter explicitly rules access control mechanisms and DRM out
of scope.

We welcome W3C Advisory Committee representatives' general expressions of
interest  and support on <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>. Public discussion takes
place on the dedicated public list (archive [2]). If you have other input
or questions, please contact Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>.

Subject to feedback received following this announcement, formal review of
the charter may begin in late September.

Coralie Mercier, Acting Head of W3C Marketing & Communications


[1] https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ole-comment/

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    Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Thursday, 6 August 2015 11:58:52 UTC