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Subject: RE: [chairs] Is "Defensive RF" the answer to the OASIS IPR impasse?
Gabe,
I agree that OASIS can do more here.
Right now we're caught in no-mans-land as TC chairs - where we are
being asked to sign-on to IPR policies that appear to not be in-line
with the needs of our work and members vision, while at the same time
being hand-cuffed in not being able to mitigate that by clarifications
at the TC level to participants.
If we had tools like sample IPR contribution agreement templates
(such as defensive RF, RF) that we can present to participants up front
- then as you rightly note - the likelihood is that their respective
legal departments will apply something close to that. Instead
when you throw it open - you end up with legal imposing something that
is at odds with the spirit and mission because their frame of reference
is narrowed just to that company view.
So I'm not sure that the new IPR is less "messy" than the old!?
It's more perscribing - but that appears to be in a negative way that
does not solve the issues we are seeing here. If a TC wants
to simplify this all by chartering its work as specifically
RF-based as a term of participatation and acceptance of
contributions - right now we cannot.
Thanks, DW