- From: Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:10:59 +0000
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: public-w3process@w3.org
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:51:36PM +0200, Daniel Glazman wrote: > > > > They cannot (and must not) produce something that gets under the patent policy without doing so. Obviously, all groups are free to discuss the future, and so on. > > In pure theory, yes. In practice, we all know this is not how it > too often goes for new work items appearing during the course of > a charter. Work almost always start unchartered, happens in the > mailing-list of the WG, takes WG time during calls and ftfs > and remains an Editor's Draft the time needed to become "cleaner" > and is in legal limbos. We'll have some day a big problem... > > In practice again, like it or not, unchartered spec work starts because > _Members_ cannot and don't want to wait. This is again a question of > adapting our rules to our practice. Well, it's not a problem to take on board contributions on a document that is not yet published on the Rec track. Staff and chairs must not publish a FPWD for a spec that is not on the charter (actually, less than 150 days before the new charter might work, but it would be a patent policy hack) -- Carine Bournez /// W3C Europe
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