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David, Attached are our comments to the ProCom Ad Hoc in regard to the proposed OpsMan clause 5.3.8. I attach our comment output from the comment tool in both csv and usr file form. Kind regards, Michelle -----Original Message----- From: David Law 2 [mailto:David_Law@3COM.COM] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:52 PM To: PP-DIALOG@listserv.ieee.org Subject: [PP-DIALOG] ProCom Ad Hoc on Antitrust All, I have been requested to give an update on the activities of the ProCom ad hoc on anti-trust since, while not directly a PatCom activity, it is related to the proposed changes to the Patent Policy. The ad hoc was chartered by ProCom at it's September meeting and it's formation was announced during the ProCom report at the IEEE-SA Standards Board meeting on Friday 15th September. The ad hoc was chartered with drafting proposed wording for the IEEE-SA Operations Manual to: 1) Modify the language in 5.3.8 to bring it into alignment with current anti-trust enforcement practices. 2) Align 5.3.8 with the proposed changes to the Patent Policy which explicitly allows the distribution of accepted LOAs at WG meetings. In addition it was also chartered to: 3) Consider developing more extensive anti-trust compliance education language for potential inclusion in the Standards Companion or elsewhere. 4) Pointing to this education language in 5.3.8. I was appointed to chair the ad hoc and the following individuals volunteered to participate: Chuck Adams, Jim Hughes, Rich Hulett, Michael Lindsay, Amy Marasco, Ron Moore, Chuck Powers, Robert Skitol, from staff Karen Kenney, Mary Lynn Nielsen, Dave Ringle. The ad hoc has come to consensus on a draft for items 1 and 2 and would like to offer the members of the PP-DIALOG reflector the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes. All comments concerning the attached draft must be entered using the PatCom Commenting Tool [ http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialog/comment-tool/index.html ]. These comments will then be reviewed by the ad hoc, responded to, and updates made to the draft as required. The comments, responses and the resultant draft will then be considered at the ProCom Meeting held on Tuesday December 4th. The deadline for submission of comments is 11:59PM PST Tuesday November 28th, 2006. Please email the output from your commenting tool to me at David_Law@3com.com. We have only just started work on Items 3 and 4 and I believe that these items address providing detailed guidance to chairs on this area - the output may be another component of the information presented by the chair - or something that participants are just made aware of where to access - but I don't believe that this is directly related to the patent policy slides presented at each meeting which is an action for PatCom to update. Regardless I will ensure a period of review is provided through the PP-DIALOG reflector for this material once it has been developed by the ad hoc. As always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards, David Law
ProCom_AHG Antitrust Comments OpsMan Clause 5.3.8 Copy Nov2806.USR