- From: Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:42:15 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dan Phillips wrote: >[Chris Lilley wrote:] >> Please get your facts in order. The public review period of the SVG 1.0 >> specification (from first public working draft on 11 February 1999 to >> end of the Proposed Recommendation period on 16 August, 2001) was *over >> 29 months* > >Let me get this straight. You claim the public review period for SVG did not >go by quietly? From the list archive: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/ > >we see: > > Total comments for August 2001: 60 From the message titles, it appears that *none* of the 60 discuss the patent policy. Of 63 messages in July, 4 seem to deal with patent policy. One of these says that there was a lot of discussion about it in the closed list but it was just "a bunch of talking". Of 40 messages in September, 2 seem to have to do with patent policy. None of the 3 messages in October mention it. I remind you that the public review period beginning 11 February 1999 was to review a document that said nothing about patent policy. That didn't appear until July 2001, as far as I can tell, and public comment was not invited on that document. I personally would have commented anyhow but was indisposed at the time and didn't see the July document until this week. I applaud the W3C for its hard work on the technical aspects of SVG and for considering patent implications. I disagree with the decision to allow RAND licensing of SVG features, whatever those features might be. Glenn
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