Questionnaire for enabling WebCGM WG to end exclusion opportunity early.

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

The WebCGM Working Group recently published the WebCGM 2.0 Candidate
Recommendation [1] and anticipates advancing to Proposed
Recommendation in the near future. On 22 September 2006, the Working
Group received notice [2] of a Patent Policy exclusion period that ends
21 November. The group hopes to advance to Proposed Recommendation prior
to that date, however. Per the Patent Policy FAQ (question 24 [4]), the
Director generally does not advance a document to Proposed
Recommendation during an open exclusion period. It is possible to end an
exclusion period early (FAQ question 25 [3]) by securing agreement from
all Advisory Committee Representatives of Members participating in
a group. The Team has prepared a form to collect these agreements:
  http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/39256/webcgm2006/

Please complete the questionnaire before 23:59, Boston time on
2006-11-21 by indicating that you either agree or do not agree to end
the current exclusion period early. Please note that all participating
Members must agree in order for the exclusion period to end early;
silence does not imply consent. 

If, before 21 November, all participating Members agree to end the 
exclusion period, the group will be able to request to advance to
Proposed Recommendation. The exclusion period will end upon approval
from the Director to advance to Proposed Recommendation.

Thank you,

 _ Ian Jacobs

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-webcgm20-20060906/
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm-wg/2006Sep/0067
[3] http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq#early-exclusion-end
[4] http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq#mult-exclusions

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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
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