Re: Would like section references in all W3C legal agreements

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the feedback. I recall adding a bunch of anchors to the CG process:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/

I'll take your advice and go add some for the cg legal agreements. 

Ian

On 17 May 2012, at 4:05 PM, Vickers, Mark wrote:

> In discussions with W3C legal staff and member legal staff about W3C agreements, a nice feature of some W3C agreements is that we can pass a link to a specific section of those agreements, e.g.
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> 	http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign
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> However, the availability of internal links in W3C agreements seems to be very inconsistent, in three categories:
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> 1.. Visible links: The best agreements have a Table of Contents and clickable links in sections:
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> 	http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign
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> 2. Hidden links: Other agreements have no visible links, but the underlying document has id attributes which can be used for linking, but only by the technically savvy:
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> 	http://www.w3.org/2009/12/Member-Agreement#terms
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> 3. No links: Some agreements have no internal links at all:
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> 	http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
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> It's disappointing that the more recent agreement for CGs is the least linkable!
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> It would be great if all W3C agreements were republished consistently, with visible links to each numbered section.
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> Note that this is not the highest-priority request.
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> Thanks,
> mav
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> 

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