Fw: RE: Invitation to ISO/IEC 29500 Defect Report Collection Form

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:22:36AM +0900, MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Dr. Istvan Sebestyen of Ecma made some comments on the last statement 
> in the comment collection form.  
> 
> "By submitting this comment, the submitter agrees that all intellectual property rights are granted to SC 34."

Hmm, SC 34 is not a legal entity, and anyway, SC 34 does not hold
copyrights to the standards we produce. The copyrights are held by ISO
and IEC. So I woould substitute "ISO, IEC and Ecma" for SC 34 here.

Best regards
keld

>  I plan to have some discussion about this in Okinawa. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> SC34/WG4 Convenor
> MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
> 
> Forwarded by "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp>
> ----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
>  From:    "Istvan Sebestyen" <istvan at ecma-international.org>
>  To:      "Murata, M." <eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp>
>  Date:    Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:29:17 +0100
>  Subject: RE: Invitation to ISO/IEC 29500 Defect Report Collection Form
> ----
> 
> Dear Murata-san,
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I am not sure if the following formulation is correct on your form:
> 
> "By submitting this comment, the submitter agrees that all intellectual property rights are granted to SC 34."
> 
> I think here one has to be very specific, and depending on the type of IPR you need different texts.
> 
> For copyright you need a text that grants SC34 free license to use the submitted text, and that allows that it is 
> published partly or fully under ISO/IEC/Ecma Copyright ownership.
> 
> For patents - if any - we need something that declares if there are any known essential patents - of the submitter or 
> of 3rd party - in the submissions, and if so, at least licensing at RAND
> terms (but preferably at RF terms) must be granted to any implementer. 
> And a patent statement must be submitted by the patent holder to ISO/IEC
> to declare that intention.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Istvan Sebestyen
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murata, M. 
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:26 PM
> To: Istvan Sebestyen
> Cc: Murata, M.
> Subject: Invitation to ISO/IEC 29500 Defect Report Collection Form
> 
> Dear Ecma International,
> 
> I am writing this mail on behalf of SC34/WG4 (Office Open XML).  I am
> the convenor of this working group.
> 
> In accordance with Resolution 5 of the SC 34 Jeju plenary meeting, SC34
> member bodies and liaisons are requested to use the web based defect
> report collection mechanism for ISO/IEC 29500.  The URL is
> http://www.29500sc34comments.org/.  Your user name and password
> is Ecma and 329118!, respectively.
> 
> 
> 	Resolution 5: Defect Report Collection Mechanism for ISO/IEC 29500
> 
> 	SC 34 expresses its thanks for the report of Ad Hoc Group 2
> 	and notes that the web based defect collection mechanism is
> 	nearly operational. National Bodies and liaisons are requested
> 	to use the web form when available (to be located on the WG 4
> 	website) to report possible editorial or technical defects in
> 	ISO/IEC 29500.
> 
> If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact 
> me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> MURATA Makoto
> Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG4 
> 
> P.S.  The form does not allow contributors to delete or modify
> comments at present, but we will improve the form in the near future.
> 
> 
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