[wbs] response to 'Call for Review: Publishing Working Group Charter'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review:
Publishing Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for Thomson Reuters
by Bob Bailey.


The reviewer's organization suggests changes to this Charter, and only
supports the proposal if the changes are adopted [Formal Objection].

Additional comments about the proposal:
   After consulting with my organisations IP legal team, and after
reviewing other responses (especially that from Microsoft) I have to ask
that the scope of the charter be dramatically tightened. As it stands, we
could not join the working group because it would be very unclear what
existing IPR we would be contributing, and what IPR potential we would be
foregoing. 

This is regrettable as I have been developing wider business interest in
publishing standards within my organisation. Unless the scope of the group
is tightened however, we would be unable to join irrespective of any
business interest. Since we are a publishing organisation, that would be
unfortunate, effectively a ‘lose-lose’ situation.




General comments:
   My organisation supports the general principle and direction of
standards in publishing, our issue here is our inability to understand or
choose what we are committing or foregoing by way of IPR given the very
broad scope of the charter.


Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/publwg/ until 2017-05-14.

 Regards,

 The Automatic WBS Mailer

Received on Friday, 12 May 2017 08:12:08 UTC