Inauguration of the SWBPD WG mailling list

Greetings, all.

mailto:public-swbp-wg@w3.org is the mailing list for participants
in the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Working Group.

If you have received this message directly it is because you have
registered as a  "Working Group Participant" for the 4 March 2004
meeting in Mandelieu la Napole during the W3C All Working Group week.
I have populated the distribution list with the addresses of everyone
who has registered as a WG Participant.

Please know that this Working Group is one of the first to commence
operation under the W3C Patent Policy [1], as approved by the W3C
Membership.  Formally, this Policy comes into action when and if
the Working Group decides to publish Working Drafts on the W3C
Recommendation Track.

The Policy has an impact on us as we start, however.  Participants
must be added to the group by your corresponding Advisory Committee
representative in a two-step process.  In the first of these two steps,
your AC rep agrees on behalf of your organization to 


[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:39:28 UTC