I write as a concerned owner of a (very small) business. I am in particular concerned with section 3, item 3, covering Royalty-Free (RF) Licensing Requirements, which states: "3. may be limited to implementations of the Recommendation, and to what is required by the Recommendation;" My concern is that with the spread of small customized devices, this clause might limit the ability to use a particular standard in other environments. I am currently developing some small programs for cell-phones, but there are many other devices that would seem like they might be shut out because they are not traditional web-browsing devices and use of the standard might not seem to constitute exactly "an implementation of the standard", especially if they are part of a chain of components that make use of some standard as an intermediate step to the final presentation of data to a user. Ideally, I should like the see the clause removed as I don't think there is any way you can allow a kind of restriction that will not trip up a developer eventually and thus bring practical limits to the "standard" which otherwise would have none. Thanks for your consideration, ---> Kendall Helmstetter GelnerReceived on Friday, 3 January 2003 12:53:10 UTC
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