Hi Mike,
Below is from my original Chapter Policy Manuscript, which seems to be
much too robust for acceptance.
However, it does contain such criterias: Specifically, National Chapters
must fulfil III-2, III-3:
* III-2. **Intellectual Property*
**
* *The National Chapters are required to secure the fair
use of trademarks and other intellectual property
in the jurisdiction for the OpenID Community with a
commercially reasonable effort. **
*III-3. **Translation*
i. The National Chapters are required to
provide the translation of then current OpenID Specifications and the
IPR documents in the local language.* *
ii. The National Chapters are required to
assist the communication of the Local Chapter Members with the Working
Groups by setting up a local language mailing list parallel to the OIDF
Working Group mailing lists.
III-2 especially, requires a single entity to be doing this, since
otherwise, it will result in a chaos. This probalby is the most
important reason for having a single National Chapter.
Also, IMHO, a National chapter should conduct a preliminary survay of
local patents for the possible infringement of those by OpenID
specificatioin. This is a rather costly operation and best dealt at one
entity for the economic reason. Probably, this should be added to III-2
as well.
Nat
Original text are as below:---
*II. **Duties of a Local Chapter*
1. *Intellectual Property*
The chapters must agree that their activities will be for the purpose of
supporting the adoptions and the usage of OpenID. They must agree that
any intellectual property or trademarks developed or held by the local
chapter must be available freely for the OpenID Community for the fair use.
2. *Activities*
Each Local Chapter must engage in the following activities:
i. Annual General Meeting
ii. Annual Report Publishing
iii. Web site which is enabled with OpenID
Authentication.
*3. **Autonomous Financing
*The chapters must operate autonomously without any financial support
from OIDF.**
*4. **Membership Management
*Local Chapters must maintain the list of the Local Chapter Members. **
*III. **Obligations of a National Chapter*
In addition to the above Local Chapters duties, National Chapters are
required to fulfill the following obligations.
*1. **Form
*Although it is not required to be registered as a non-profit
organization, a National Chapter must be a non-profit for its purpose. **
*2. **Intellectual Property
*The National Chapters are required to secure the fair use of trademarks
and other intellectual property in the jurisdiction for the OpenID
Community with a commercially reasonable effort. **
*3. **Translation*
i. The National Chapters are required to
provide the translation of then current OpenID Specifications and the
IPR documents in the local language.* *
ii. The National Chapters are required to
assist the communication of the Local Chapter Members with the Working
Groups by setting up a local language mailing list parallel to the OIDF
Working Group mailing lists.
Mike Jones wrote:
Nat and Snorri, since you're the ones advocating OIDF having the
concept of designated national chapters, I'm going to first ask you to
take a stab at answering Dick's question. I agree with him that
having a designation but no criteria for the board to make that
designation nor any definition of how the OIDF should treat a
designated national chapter any differently than any other local
chapter is a recipe for future problems.
Summarizing, I think the questions are:
- What criteria will be used to decide which application is granted
the national chapter if there is more then one applicant?
- Does the OIDF treat designated national chapters any differently
than other chapters, and if so, how?
Thanks,
-- Mike
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Dick Hardt
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:28 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] Revised local chapters policy
*_12 - Territories_*
*OIDF will recognize any proposed eligible Local Chapters,
regardless of the geographic scope of the chapter, including
chapters with overlapping territories and missions. Chapters
organized at the nation state level may apply to the OIDF to be
recognized as the OIDF-designated national chapter. OIDF will
recognize at most one chapter as the designated national chapter
in a nation-state at any time.*
* *
What criteria will be used to decide which application is granted the
national chapter if there is more then one applicant?
If the national chapter leadership is lacking and another group wants
to take over, how is that done?
These are very subjective / political criteria that I think would be
best for the OIDF to stay out of if possible.
-- Dick
--
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
XDI.ORG Vice Chair
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