Member Submission - BITSY

We, Oracle Corporation, hereby submit to the Consortium the following 
specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:

   1. Web Interface To Synchronization (BITSY) API
      <http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/feeds/spec/bitsy.xhtml>

which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the 
Submission be known as the BITSY Submission.


    Abstract

BITSY enables offline access to Internet data from any application 
including Web browsers. BITSY is an interface to control synchronization 
of Internet Atom feeds with local storage for satisfying the off-line 
data needs of applications. BITSY is designed to make applications 
resilient to network fickleness and do so without requiring changes to 
the way applications are written.


    Intellectual Property Statements


      Copyrights

Oracle Corporation hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, 
royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any copyrights on this 
contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the 
W3C document licenses 
<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents>.

Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a 
W3C Activity, Oracle Corporation grants a right and license of the same 
scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or 
incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Oracle Corporation 
further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared 
by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.


      Trade and Service Marks (if any marks identified)

The Submission request or Submission refers to the following trade and 
service marks (registered or not): none.


      Patents

Oracle Corporation agree to offer licenses for any essential claims in 
patents or patent applications according to the W3C Royalty-Free 
licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C 
Patent Policy 
<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements> 
for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a 
W3C Recommendation.


      Required proprietary technology

There is no proprietary technology covered by this submission.


    Suggested action

We suggest that the consortium make this submission available for 
consideration in rechartering the Web Applications Working Group or 
other charter discussions for a possible Recommendation-track working group.


    Resources

To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide assistance as 
needed to the Consortium.


    Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be 
directed to:

    * Nikunj Mehta [mailto:nikunj.mehta@oracle.com]
      <mailto:jim.bell@hp.com>, Oracle


    Submitted

this /20^th day of Monday, 2008
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Nikunj Mehta <mailto:nikunj.mehta@oracle.com> (Oracle Corp)/
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Received on Monday, 20 October 2008 12:40:52 UTC