ProCom Ad Hoc on Antitrust - updated draft and response to comments received
All,
Ninety four (94) comments were received on the anti-trust guidelines -
our thanks to those that supplied these comments. The ProCom ad hoc on
anti-trust met by teleconference over many hours and has considered all
these comments and updated the draft as necessary. The new draft and the
comment responses are attached. My thanks to dedication of the members
of this ad hoc. This draft will be considered by ProCom at its meeting
next week on the morning of Tuesday 20th March (Please note - this is a
ProCom item - not a PatCom item - PatCom will be meeting that afternoon).
As background this 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 2006. 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 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.
This was completed at the December Standards Board meeting when the new
language for subclause 5.3.8 was adopted (Note - due to changes to the
IEEE-SA Standards Board Operation manual published in January subclause
5.3.8 is now subclause 5.3.10).
The ad hoc 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.
At the December ProCom meeting it was agreed that more extensive anti-trust
guidelines are required to support the changes to the IEEE-SA Standards
Board Operations manual. Since then the ad hoc has been working on developing
these guidelines. As always if you have any questions please do not hesitate
to contact me.
Regards,
David Law
ProCom_21_Feb_07_V3p0.pdf
ProCom_Antitrust_Guide_V2p0.pdf
ProCom_Antitrust_Guide_V2p0_Diff.pdf