- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:09:58 -0800
- To: "Carr, Wayne" <wayne.carr@intel.com>, "Robin Berjon" <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:38:57 -0800, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2011, at 22:34 , Carr, Wayne wrote: >> It isn't just to have something for lawyers to review. Some companies >> may not want licensing commitments for their intellectual property that >> doesn't actually make it into the spec. Candidate Rec could lead to >> features being thrown out. I think for at least some companies they'd >> want to know it is a real, implementable spec that they're donating to. > > Right. Yep. I think that is fair enough. > When this has come up before, the idea that was suggested was that there > would be a timeout on the CR licensing commitment (e.g. 2 years) that > would hold automatically (i.e. if you agree to it you can't back out of > it) for all features that make it to Rec but not for anything that gets > dropped. And it would be automatically cancelled if the spec didn't make > it to Rec in time (if it's still in development, then a renewed CR would > be required I would assume). A sunset timeout would maintain the rationale to create a recommendation. As Anne said, the technology is continually evolving, but this case is *one* of those where you need a stable agreed snapshot to get a commitment to it. A commitment that ran through to REC would be nice. I'm not sure it is required, but I'd be happy to have on the table. However it requires a change to the patent policy. (There is a whole separate thread to be had on dealing with the fact that technology changes but specs need stop points - this is just a use case IMHO). cheers -- Charles 'chaals' McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg kan litt norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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