Call for Exclusions: XForms 1.1 and XForms Requirements

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
Recommendation Track documents:

- XForms Requirements
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-forms-req),
  exclusion opportunity ending on  5 June 2007

- XForms 1.1
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/),
  exclusion opportunity ending on  5 June 2007

These specifications were produced by the Forms Working Group.

If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion
opportunity, no further action is required.

Participants will make a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon (re-)joining 
this Working Group. With the transition of this group to the W3C Patent 
Policy and per the Patent Policy Transition Procedure [0], Participants 
have an opportunity until  5 June 2007 to exclude patent claims reading on 
these documents. For more information about exclusions, please see
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion

Excluded claims are not subject to the licensing requirements of the W3C
Patent Policy for this document. For more information about exclusions,
please see
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion

To make exclusions, please use the following form:
 http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32219/exclude

Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
available at:
 http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32219/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the Forms Working Group:
 * Steven Pemberton at steven.pemberton@cwi.nl

For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim
exclusions, see:
  http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications

[0] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/05-pp-transition#switch
[1]
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with
[2]
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign

[Note: I am sending this to the Forms WG's new public list as well 
as the group's Member List]

-- 
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447