Fwd: Call for Exclusions: HTML+RDFa 1.1

Jean-Pierre, Sebastian, Ted, Stéphane, Steven

You are listed as members of the RDFa Working Group, per[1], even if some of you are not active in the group any more. Nevertheless, it is very important that you take an active step explicitly excluding any patent claim in the name of your institution. 

The reason for this unusual (ie, active instead of the usual passive) step is that a bug in the patent policy system manifested itself in this case, due to the fact that the HTML5+RDFa document was originally started by the HTML WG and was then taken over by the RDFa WG. As a result of this bug, the 'usual' IPP mail, which relies on a time interval (6 months) to exclude patents, started few months later than anticipated (end of November instead of September). On the other hand, the WG is ready with HTML5+RDFa, ie, unless some unexpected comments come in during the Last Call period, the group is ready to close the work and start a Proposed Recommendation phase in a few weeks. That is... this is not possible in case we rely on the traditional 'passive' patent disclosure approach (the 6 months are not yet over), we would have to wait several months, doing... nothing. Hence the exceptional approach of asking you in making the 'active' step as outlined in the mail of Ian below. 

We would appreciate if you could take the few minutes in filling the form 

http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/44350/exclude

In case of any practical issues, please contact Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) who will be happy to help.

Thank you!

Manu & Ivan


[1] https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=44350



Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
>>> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:06 PM
>>> Subject: Call for Exclusions: HTML+RDFa 1.1
>>> To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
>>> Cc: member-cfe@w3.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear Advisory Committee representative,
>>> 
>>> This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
>>> Recommendation Track document:
>>> 
>>> - HTML+RDFa 1.1
>>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/),
>>> exclusion opportunity ending on  8 April 2013 23:59 UTC
>>> 
>>> This specification was produced by the RDFa Working Group.
>>> 
>>> NOTE: The Working Group Chairs have asked for the opportunity to end this
>>> exclusion period early in light of the group's desired publication
>>> schedule. We have
>>> created a form for Advisory Committee Representatives of participating
>>> Members to
>>> indicate their support for ending this exclusion period early. Please
>>> see the form
>>> for all details:
>>> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44350/earlyexcl2013/
>>> 
>>> The remainder of this email is the standard text and applies if you do
>>> not wish to
>>> end the exclusion opportunity early.
>>> 
>>> If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion
>>> opportunity, no further action is required.
>>> 
>>> Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining this
>>> Working Group. With the publication of this document, per section 4.1 of
>>> the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity until  8 April 2013
>>> 23:59 UTC to exclude patent claims reading on this Last Call draft.  At
>>> Last Call, exclusions are limited to matter in the Last Call draft that was
>>> not present or apparent in this draft:
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-rdfa-in-html-20120911/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Excluded claims are not subject to the licensing requirements of the W3C
>>> Patent Policy for this document. For more information about exclusions,
>>> please see
>>> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion
>>> 
>>> To make exclusions, please use the following form:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/44350/exclude
>>> 
>>> Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
>>> available at:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/44350/status
>>> 
>>> If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
>>> for the RDFa Working Group:
>>> * Ivan Herman at ivan@w3.org
>>> 
>>> For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim
>>> exclusions, see:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> 
>>> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
>>> Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with
>>> [2]
>>> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign
>>> --
>>> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
>>> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
>> 
> 
> --
> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
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