- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:07:00 -0400
- To: W3C Process CG <public-w3process@w3.org>
Congratulations to the community for their work on these updates! The following documents will take effect on 15 September 2020. World Wide Web Consortium Process Document https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/ World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/ ------------------------------------------------- Process Document and Patent Policy transition phase Groups may publish under the new Process beginning 15 September 2020; infrastructure changes are underway and being tested. The W3C Process Document approved in 2019 will be superseded. In practice, all groups using Process 2019 will automatically move to Process 2020. /TR publications published after this date should update the Process reference in the SOTD (Status of the Document section) to '15 September 2020'. On the same day the new Patent Policy is also adopted and groups will go through a transition phase from 1 November to 15 January. While the 5 February 2004 (updated 1 August 2017) Patent Policy remains in effect, all new proposed charters will use the 2020 Patent Policy. Existing Working Groups who wish to take advantage of the enhanced Patent Policy will need to recharter in order to adopt the new Patent Policy, due to the impact on the patent commitments for specifications on the Recommendation track. Participants will be asked to rejoin the Working Groups once the new charter is approved by the Director. In order to avoid sending simultaneously multiple calls for review of all current Working Group charters, we intend to update existing charters that extend beyond March 2021. This will be solely for the purpose of changing to Patent Policy 2020. Since the Members already reviewed the new Patent Policy, we will directly survey each Working Group whose current charter extends beyond March 2021. We will start this survey on November 1 after TPAC 2020, asking their preference regarding the timing of the switch to the new Patent Policy: - For all Working Groups who wish to adopt the new Patent Policy immediately, the W3C Director will approve a revised charter on the December 1, triggering a 45-day period for participants to rejoin the Working Group (until January 15, 2021). - For the Working Groups who prefer to wait, they may remain under their current charter, but must switch to the new Patent Policy upon their next rechartering. The Patent Policy places only disclosure obligations on Interest Groups. These are unchanged in Patent Policy 2020 and does not impact current participation in Interest Groups. Philippe
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