From - Thu Apr 17 14:32:26 2003 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: carl@andisplanet.com Received: from ggpl.org (drgaila.u-aizu.ac.jp [163.143.133.123]) by andisplanet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EAE6910E8 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 05:23:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E7C4F8F.1020500@ggpl.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:57:03 +0900 From: Carl Vilbrandt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@ggpl.org Subject: Royalty-Free Patent Policy (W3C) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Should Organis design consider the Royalty-Free Patent Policy (W3C) and other types of compromise? I tend to think that at the very least try to identify different phases of the development of the Organis structure based levels of development of digital technologies. # "W3C Unveils Its Patent Plans" CNet (03/19/03); Bowman, Lisa M. For over three years, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been struggling to develop a patent policy that satisfies both open source proponents who want royalty-free standards and proprietary software companies who demand payment for the use of their technologies. A compromise has been struck in the latest draft of the W3C Patent Policy Working Group's Royalty-Free Patent Policy, which dictates that patented technology can be incorporated into standards development provided that it is royalty-free in the majority of cases. "With this final draft, the Working Group believes it has found a common, workable path that will encourage the widespread adoption of W3C standards across a wide range of business models, from proprietary to open source," notes Working Group Chairman Daniel Weitzner. Among the provisions contained in the latest version is one that allows technology to be included in Web standards when it does not adhere to specific inclusion standards, in which case the consortium's Patent Advisory Group will study ways to resolve the situation. Another provision included in the latest draft requires patent holders who want to exclude patented technology from a standard to notify the W3C of the patent within 90 days after the first draft of a working paper on the standard is issued. The W3C's patent policy draft will be open for public comment in six weeks, and the consortium hopes that its director will approve a final plan in May. http://news.com.com/2100-1013-993283.html