Re: [oasis-board-comment] Fwd: Your recent inquiry re Board agenda

No apologies needed, that was, and continues to be, my concern -
    there has been a steady deterioration in the amount of information
    accessible to non-board members through the board agendas. Documents
    that should be member accessible prior to, and after, Board
    meetings, are not linked to them; that's understandable if they are
    HR or legal documents, but there is no reason for this to be so in
    other cases. Perhaps at some point the Board should re-consider its
    approach to transparency and openness.

    

    Regarding this particular case, I am not in complete agreement with
    the statement that a waiver to a provision in the IPR policy does
    not constitute in fact a change to the IPR policy. In a very subtle
    way it does, inasmuch as it establishes a precedent that can be used
    subsequently to justify other waivers without much discussion.

    

    While I understand the desire for a quick(er) resolution to this
    issue so that the Candidate Specification can move forward, perhaps
    the Board should undertake a review of the IPR policy to address the
    issue of government owned copyright and trademarks as opposed to
    commercially owned copyright and trademarks, as well as perhaps
    providing some parameters for the issuance of waivers. Just
    saying... (And yes, obviously in some cases it is difficult to
    figure out where a government ends and a commercial entity begins,
    but that's what the IPR committee is there for, isn't it?)

    

    Thank you for your attention,

    

    Eduardo Gutentag

    

    
On 03/29/2016 10:13 AM, Peter F Brown
      wrote:

    

    
      
      
      

        
I
          think Eduardo's concern is as much about the availability of
          information on the issue to be discussed, as about the actual
          item up for discussion.

          We obviously discussed this in detail already at our face to
          face in Los Angeles a couple of weeks' back and agreed to hold
          the follow up meeting to finalize our position as a Board but
          subscribers to the Board Agenda mailing list won't have been
          party to that information.

          Apologies, Eduardo, if I'm being too presumptive about your
          concern.

          Regards,

          Peter

          

          Sent via my phone. Apologies for brevity - it's not easy
          writing on a moving planet.

      

      

        
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            Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:28 PM

            Subject: Your recent inquiry re Board agenda

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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,

                

                

                
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