Fwd: Re: legal issues with two groups sharing the same IRC channel?

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Subject: Re: legal issues with two groups sharing the same IRC channel?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:22:18 -0500
From: Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>
Organization: W3C
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, elf >> ☮ elf Pavlik ☮
<perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>, Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com>

Hi Harry, Elf, and Arnaud,

I don't see a legal problem with sharing the irc channel between the IG
and WG. Indeed, many groups operating in public have a practice of
allowing anyone who is identified to listen to WG meetings.

The chairs and team are responsible for watching that contributions to
rec-track documents come only from WG Participants, see
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq#non-participants

If we expect non-WG-participants to be around and possibly speaking
during WG discussions, you may want to remind people of the patent
policy's goals and ask them not to interject (or to get patent
commitments from those where you want contributions).

Hope that helps,
--Wendy

On 01/21/2015 12:36 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> Arnaud thought this was possible. Of course, anyone can join IRC so it's
> hard to see how we could enforce IPR commits (unlike with mailing
> lists). Is this a concern?
> 
>    cheers,
>     harry
> 


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