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Then I think our only point of disagreement is the flexibility for an exceptional circumstance in which the technology is so compelling, it is in the public interest or in this case, the interests of the W3C membership to accept the encumbrance as the cost of acquiring access to the technology. That should clearly be an exception and the policy must reflect this and provide a means to ensure it is strictly followed. How to do this is problematic, but I agree that unless one can be sure the person in the next seat isn't "ripping me off as I work openly", I'm not likely to have beer with them after the gig. Unfortunately, there are those that can and have done so and we should not be cherry about that. Where W3C offers a sound policy, the Miller Time quotient goes up. If after much discussion and wrangling, those who have to decide cannot find a way to better the quality of Miller Time, then the only recourse is to set the policy as you say: no encumbered technology. That will also have side effects and they may be as Tim said, "reasonable" if only because they are unavoidable. Then community norms will come into play. We can say this is the case, but informal norms by definition are not policy driven. They are karma. Karma is not justice; simply irrevocable like lighting a match in a room full of pure oxygen. len -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@s...] I agree that formal norms are important. These formal norms should require that WG participants agree to make any IPR necessary for implementing a standard available. The only part of the RAND policy that I disagree with is that I believe that IPR actually needed to implement a standard should be available without cost.
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