- From: Joe Chellman <joe@chellman.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:54:25 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I sent some comments already, and I'd like to add a couple remarks. After discussing this with other people, reading other people's comments, I can see that the RAND policy is probably better-intentioned than I originally thought. However, in the interest of keeping the playing field level, it is imperative that the definitions of low-level standards versus higher-level be spelled out better. In other words, we need to know, in writing, that HTML/XML/XHTML/CSS/DOM and other low-level standards will continue to be royalty free. That is implied, but not specifically stated, in the current policy. There also should be strict criteria laid out describing what comprises low-level, and therefore what *must* be royalty-free. I'll leave it to the W3C and its lawyers to figure out what that language should be, but I think it's very important to have that spelled out before this policy is adopted. Thank you, Joe -- Joe Chellman email - joe@chellman.org drummer web - http://www.chellman.org/ webdesigner pgp - http://www.chellman.org/pgp_key.txt
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