[OSGeo-Standards] OGC Meeting in Stresa, Italy and some additional infos

[Allan Doyle]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 15:00 , Raj Singh wrote:

> This Fall OGC's intellectual property policies changed. Previously,  
> walking into a TC meeting meant agreeing to blanket intellectual  
> property terms for everything discussed in any room. We now have a  
> more fine-grained opt-in policy enabled by having two distinct types  
> of working groups -- domain WGs and standards WGs. Domain WGs  
> discuss market requirements but don't write standards docs. I  
> believe the only time people need to sign anything regarding  
> intellectual property is when entering a standards WG.

So is there an NDA covering the NDA? :)

And does the TC plenary count as "standards" or "domain"?

These are things that could make a big difference for the FOSS crowd.  
And, wouldn't the FOSS crowd be more interested in standards than  
domains?

Maybe it's time for Creative Commons to make some "Meeting Disclosure"  
licenses.

	Allan


> There's probably still an expectation that some things aren't  
> discussed as OGC "policy" if it's just something mentioned in a  
> meeting -- kind of like the disclaimer about "forward-looking  
> statements" you see in financial documents <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement 
> >.
> ---
> Raj
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Jo Walsh wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:03:53AM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote:
>>> It might be worth inquiring what form of non-disclosure agreement/
>>> intellectual property form the individual members will have to  
>>> fill out.
>>
>> I'll be interested in this too. My aims in turning up to this thing
>> are to lurk and learn, gegt a feel for what is going on and how it is
>> stacking up with other standards creation efforts in Europe, in
>> particular. When i get the chance to attend these sorts of things
>> (UNSDI, the EC-GIS workshops, etc) I do a short writeup for the
>> benefit of the OSGeo list / the blogosphere. So I have been wondering
>> what kind of restraints on reporting there will be for the OGC TC
>> meet, and will find out at the time. I suppose signing an NDA could  
>> be
>> seen as a "victimless crime", but perhaps what i get to report back,
>> will be confined to the "corridor track" ;)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>> jo
>>
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