Successful oBIX TC IPR Transition Ballot

To:  TC Qualified Members 
of the OASIS Open Building Information 
Exchange (oBIX) TC 
cc:  
Other TC members 

    The OASIS Open Document Format for 
Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC has conducted a Transition Approval Ballot under the rules provided by the 
OASIS IPR Transition Policy [1]. The ballot results are visible to OASIS 
members at [2]. The ballot to apply the current (2005) OASIS IPR Policy to the TC's operations, and adopt the "RF on 
Limited Terms" IPR mode, was APPROVED. As 
a result, the TC will start operating under that policy and mode on 26 July 2006, which is 14 days from the date of this 
notice. That date will be the TC's Transition Effective Date under the IPR Transition Policy. 
This message is your Approval Notification under that policy.

    Please 
note: 
    1.  Any members of the 
TC who have not signed the current Membership Agreement by that date will be 
deemed withdrawn from TC membership on the

 TC Transition Effective Date. If you have 
not yet signed the agreement, and have questions or would like assistance, 
please contact my colleague Scott McGrath, our Director of Member Services, who 
is copied on this message.

    2.  The 
obligations of OASIS members who serve as TC members under the 2005 OASIS IPR Policy [3] are different, in some ways, from 
those under the prior policy. Please review the 2005 policy so that you are 
clear about the licensing and disclosure obligations associated with the TC 
after the TC Transition Effective 
Date.

    3.  OASIS 
staff will announce the TC Transition 
Effective Date and the TC's new IPR Mode 
to members in the same manner as a charter amendment.

Regards, 

Mary 

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Mary P McRae 
Manager of TC 
Administration, OASIS 


 

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/ipr_transition_policy.php
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1061
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php