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That the W3C is formulating policy with regards to patents is sensible. Leaving this without process control is a serious blunder. Attempting to become a standards organization is a different problem. As long as it was making recommendations, these could be considered experimental, be allowed to run overtime or undertime, be minimal in nature, and be forgotten quickly. By attempting to be a standards organization, the processes, the goals, and the projects have to reflect a more industry practice approach to picking and managing projects, that is, standards should not be technologyInVitro, but technology fully understood and available for implementation. Churning in the tools and the standards represent major and unacceptable cost risks. I do not find the W3C performance in these areas credible as a standards organization. len -----Original Message----- From: Champion, Mike [mailto:Mike.Champion@S...] Here's the way the W3C defines the problem: a procedure for launching new standards development activities as Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) Licensing Mode activities (sections 4 and 5);
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