IP: RAND and W3C

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:15:33 +1100
> From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
>
> Hi Dave
>
> I spoke to Carl Cargill, Sun Microsystems' director of standards last 
> Friday. Cargill was responsible for pushing RAND in the W3C, a proposal 
> that has angered so many people.
>
> Web standards debate raises ire
> Tuesday 09 October, 2001
> By NATHAN COCHRANE
>
> It's back to the drawing board for a working group that proposed embedding 
> patents in future Web standards following unprecedented outrage from the 
> online community.
>
> The Sun Microsystems intellectual property lawyer who initiated the 
> discussion that blew up last week into a heated flame war, said he was 
> amazed at the "visceral" response from the online community.
>
> Carl Cargill, Sun's director of standards, proposed in April last year to 
> an intellectual property rights forum held by the British Open Group, to 
> include patents in future Web standards. He said he was motivated by a 
> bitter struggle during the latter phases of the Java language standardisation.
> ...
> "It took Sun, after we took a beating with Java, to say let's look at the 
> rules and now people see how important (intellectual property rights) 
> are," Cargill said.
>
> "Why did the other people duck their responsibilities? This was part of 
> the standards process, why did it have to be W3C; where was ISO 
> (International Standards Organisation), where was ANSI (American National 
> Standards Institute)?"
>
> [snip]
>
> http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/10/09/FFX52P06JSC.html
>
>
>
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