Fwd: Your recent inquiry re Board agenda

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From: Scott McGrath <>
Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:28 PM
Subject: Your recent inquiry re Board agenda
To: Eduardo Gutentag <>, , "" <>

Hi Eduardo,

The Board agenda item you noticed focuses on how we address a fairly unique situation with the CTI Committee, it does not change OASIS policies.

Following is a general explanation of the situation, the specific non-exclusive license agreement with DHS which the board will consider, and hopefully approve, is attached. 

OASIS rules require that any trademarks used in a specification contribution be turned over to OASIS.  When launching the cybersecurity info-sharing standards STIX, TAXII and CybOX at OASIS last year, the principal contributor U.S. DHS was not immediately able to provide a complete transfer, so OASIS agreed to a nonexclusive trademark license, subject to the board's review and waiver.  Approval of their TC's candidate Committee Specifications is on hold pending the resolution of that issue,  Staff is asking the Board to accept the nonexclusive license arrangement, as a waiver to the trademark assignment rule, by providing equivalent insurances that implementers and users will have all the same rights that they normally enjoy.  There will be a single remaining exception barring use of the trademarked spec names in a commercial product trademark, but this is a restriction OASIS has previously accepted in other appropriate cases.  We also plan to ask DHS to explore completing a full assignment to OASIS in the future.

Thanks for asking,

Scott...
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CLEAN COPY 20160303 AMENDED OASIS-DHS-TM LICENSE-STIX-TAXII-CyBOX (1 of 3).pdf

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