Gerv, I think you make my point by using the word, "seems" in front of both conclusions that you draw. Why force participants to draw inexact conclusions when we can easily fix this with a ballot. Otherwise, you are left with forcing members to determine if the exclusion was valid or not when it should be clear and transparent.
I'm actually surprised that our IPR policy, given past and numerous discussions about making all things CA/B Forum public, only says that the exclusion notice has to be provided to the Chair. Am I the only one amazed by that? Am I misinterpreting something? Dean -----Original Message----- From: Gervase Markham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 12:36 PM To: Dean Coclin <[email protected]>; CABFPub <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] IPR Exclusion notices On 03/05/16 16:50, Dean Coclin wrote: > As discussed on last week's call, there appears to have been some > ambiguity in the instructions to organizations that wanted to provide > an exclusion notice in accordance with the latest IPR policy. The > ballot stated that this had to be done within 60 days in accordance > with the policy but the policy said that notice had to be provided to > the CA/B Forum chair and not to the public list or anywhere else as we've > done in the past. That doesn't seem very ambiguous. It may not be transparent, but it's not ambiguous. > For example, it was > mentioned that one company posted their exclusion notice to the wiki > but did not notify the Chair. Is this acceptable? Notification was not provided to the chair, as requested, so that seems not acceptable. > Another organization notified the > chair by the deadline (the chair did not post it until after the deadline). Notification was provided to the chair, as requested, so that seems acceptable. > And we never sent a formal reminder out prior to the deadline. Perhaps unfortunate, but again, not ambiguous. Isn't the reason we all have highly paid lawyers is that they get to keep track of these things and make sure the correct and complete legal notices get filed in the correct places by the relevant deadlines? Gerv
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