IP: Next steps in W3C Patent Policy process

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Daniel J. Weitzner" <djweitzner () w3 org>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Dave, this is for you and IP if you like since you've had a few items on
> early steps in this process.
>
> Best,
>
> Danny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel J. Weitzner" <djweitzner () w3 org>
> To: <www-patentpolicy-comment () w3 org>
> Cc: "Bruce Perens" <bruce () perens com>; "Eben Moglen" <moglen () columbia edu>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 6:30 PM
> Subject: Next steps in W3C Patent Policy process
>
>
> > To all who provided comments on the W3C draft Patent Policy:
> >
> > First, thank you for taking the time to express your concern about this
> > issue. We have received many substantive and constructive comments. These
> > comments will, I am certain, make significant contributions to the final
> > policy that W3C adopts.
> >
> > Second, here's some information about how the process of developing this
> > policy will proceed in light of your input and how you can continue to be
> > involved. We are modifying the Patent Policy WG process to improve
> > communication between the open source and independent developer community
> > and W3C:
> >
> > +Open Source experts invited to join the Working Group: Eben Moglen
> (General
> > Counsel, Free Software Foundation) [1] and Bruce Perens (Co-Founder of the
> > Open Source Initiative) [2] are joining the Patent Policy Working Group as
> > 'invited experts.' They will participate equally with the W3C Members in
> the
> > group and will share completely in the decision-making and
> > consensus-building process. I welcome both their expertise, as well their
> > ability to promote dialogue with the Web and Open Source communities.
> >
> > +Second Last Call for public comment before finalizing policy: W3C will
> not
> > finalize this policy before we put out another public draft for comment.
> >
> > +Public Homepage for the Working Group:[3] We've created a
> > publicly-accessible home page that points to all public documents and
> public
> > mailing lists associated with the Patent Policy WG. We hope this will make
> > it easier for people who are interested to follow the progress of the
> group.
> >
> > +Public summaries of working group meetings and conference calls: After
> each
> > meeting of the Working Group, we will circulate a public summary of the
> > issues discussed.
> >
> > +Public Mailing list: The mailing list www-patentpolicy-comment () w3 org
> will
> > remain active as a forum in which to discuss the policy as it develops. We
> > will post all public materials generated by the WG to this list.
> >
> > +Participation in public forums: As Chair of the WG, I am seeking
> > opportunities to appear in as many public forums as possible, both online
> > and in person, to discuss these issues. I'll be doing a Slashdot
> > interview[4] and appearing at a Town Hall on Patent Policy at XML 2001.[5]
> > I'm open to other offers as well.
> >
> > +Regular publication of public working drafts: The WG will publish an
> update
> > on our work at least every three months, generally in the form of a new
> > Public Working Drafts. I would expect to put out the next public draft by
> > the end of October.
> >
> > Finally, we have a huge (2200+) number of public comments to respond to.
> We
> > are preparing a summary of the comments that the Working Group will
> > evaluate. As promised in the first Last Call draft, we will respond to
> each
> > issue (though not each individual email) raised.
> >
> > So, please stay tuned. I look forward to your comments on the next draft
> of
> > the policy.
> >
> > Danny Weitzner
> > Chair, W3C Patent Policy Working Group
> >
> > Links:
> > [1] http://moglen.law.columbia.edu
> > [2] http://www.perens.org/Articles/Bio.html
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/
> > [4] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/08/1459240&mode=thread
> > [5] http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/
> >
> >


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