- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:57:57 +0200
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, dschulze@adobe.com, SVG WG <public-svg-wg@w3.org>, SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
* Janina Sajka wrote: >Bjoern Hoehrmann writes: >> Could you explain why the SVG WG and PFWG cannot, like other groups do, >> publish the document jointly, or how that would be worse if the goal is >> to maximise chances that the result can be implemented royality-free? > >I think you misunderstand. Let me try to explain. > >* We are proposing joint publication. This means that PF and Svg >* would each need to agree to the publication, at each significant >* stage, e.g. FPWD, Last Call, CR, etc. The proposal is "However, the actual publishing group would be the PFWG, and therefore the work would fall under the PFWG IP policy. This would mean that people would need to join the PFWG to participate in the task force". One scenario to consider is that someone implements the Guide after it has become a Recommendation, and then gets sued by a troll over "IP" currently held by a SVG WG member (that later sells it to the troll). The troll argues that the "IP" was never held by a PFWG member, so any procedural safeguards to avoid this scenario are irrelevant. A semi-formal understanding between the SVG WG and the PFWG, that the PFWG will not publish the document if the SVG WG objects, is not a binding obligation for all SVG WG members to disclose, license, etc. any relevant "IP", and they are the most likely to hold or otherwise know of it. >So, I'm unclear what you mean when you say: "Could you explain why the >SVG WG and PFWG cannot, like other groups do, publish the document >jointly, or how that would be worse ..." http://www.google.de/search?q=site:www.w3.org/TR+published+jointly has http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-mediacapture-streams-20120628/ as first example, "This document is a regular Working Draft, published jointly by the Web Real-Time Communication and Device APIs Working Groups as Working Draft." -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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