Sadly, I think this is necessary. On 6/8/17 3:08 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > Folks, > > I came across an interesting case recently where a listed author of an > open standard was presumed to know the contents of the specification > fully - that is, as if they had written every word. Moreover, by > inference so was their employer. This came up in an IPR court case. > > The (very high) level detail is here: > > https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/issues/942#issuecomment-277034696 > > I'm considering advising Board that we should address this by > instituting a policy whereby changes to XEPs result in all listed > authors being notified (a PR will do, I imagine), and those who do not > respond within a reasonable time (hand-wave, hand-wave) must be > de-listed and moved to a "Previous Authors" section of the XEP. > > Note that this is *NOT* intended as a punishment for unresponsive > authors, hence the "Previous Authors" section - it's to protect > authors and their employers from legal action. > > I have to admit I'm surprised that such legal considerations exist, > but the central argument - that if your name is on a document, you're > presumed to know what it contains - seems sufficiently intuitive that > we should take notice. > > Comments? > > Dave.
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