Don –
After speaking with numerous IEEE members,
it would be a mistake to interpret silence as consent. It would be more
accurate to interpret it as dismay that issues where consensus clearly does not
lie continue to be debated at PatCom. Also, some issues have been repackaged,
such as suggesting there is consensus that “corporate knowledge” as
applied to disclosures has support.
Everyone is extremely busy right now
addressing IPR issues in numerous SDOs and government settings, especially with
the accelerated scheduled being promoted at ETSI to revise its IPR policy.
Perhaps some large companies have knowledgeable resources to actively
participate at all venues and accommodate all schedules. We do not, and I
expect many other IEEE members interested in the IPR policy issues also do not.
Last, I believe IEEE procedures allow that
oral statements at PatCom to carry the same weight as written submissions. Please
advise the reflector if this is incorrect.
Best regards,
Kent Baker
From: Don Wright
[mailto:don@lexmark.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006
12:04 PM
To: PP-DIALOG@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: Re: [PP-DIALOG] An LOA
draft addressing some but not all issues on the table at PatCom
Just a reminder that in the operation of committees like PatCom, it is a
reasonable and widely used assumption that a lack of comments means agreement.
On February 8th, I posted a draft LOA which contained language dealing with a
subset of the issues on PatCom's table. To date, no one has raised any
concerns. We will interprete a continued lack of comments to be
agreement. Further, given the significant time that will have elapsed
between the posting of this document and the March 27th PatCom meeting, the
chair will not entertain discussion on this subject from guests at the meeting
who have not thoroughly stated a position, including justification for
that position, on the pp-dialog e-mail list. I suppose you could say that
this is my version of "speak now or forever hold your peace."
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