RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name collision with the old Sun codename Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail first. :-) But I believe that we have ended up with a

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 13, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Cliff Schmidt wrote: Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name collision with the old Sun codename Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail

RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Craig.Russell wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Cliff Schmidt wrote: Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name collision with the old Sun codename Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail first. :-) In

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread Danny Angus
On 30/07/06, Cliff Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any further concerns about this proposal? Cliff, yes I do. As you may have seen from previous posts I've only just been catching up with this. My concern is that it is not appropriate for the incubator to continue to condone

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread Danny Angus
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RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread Larry Cable
If Apache is acceptable for the name of this organization then I see no reason to waste anyone else's time on a rather pointless debate regarding the appropriateness of naming this project 'Glasgow' or not. FYI, as a point of historical interest (and it's not that interesting), purely as a

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread Danny Angus
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Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread Danny Angus
On 04/08/06, Larry Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Apache is acceptable for the name of this organization then I see no reason to waste anyone else's time on a rather pointless debate regarding the appropriateness of naming this project 'Glasgow' or not. I don't believe that it is. I

RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-04 Thread robert . j . greig
:12 Subject: RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze) Please respond to general

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-03 Thread Cliff Schmidt
Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name collision with the old Sun codename for their JavaBeans Activiation Framework (see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GlasgowProposal?action=diffrev2=2rev1=1). I

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-02 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 21:18 -0700, Cliff Schmidt wrote: Umm, I don't think so. As a TAG member, I encountered many discussions that were in members-only areas, and they are still going on (XML Schema, for example). The TAG would refuse to participate in any such discussion, which

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-02 Thread Cliff Schmidt
Brian, As the Champion for this proposal, I'd like to move this on to a vote. I just read all the related posts one more time, and I believe your concern below is the only one that hasn't been directly addressed (if I'm wrong about this, someone speak up). So, I want to offer my thoughts on it

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Gordon Sim
Brian McCallister wrote: If the goal is to create a standard protocol for messaging stuff, this requires a lot of buy in from a wide range of parties. Keeping the protocol behind closed doors and with a mysterious future sabotages this. Transparency is, I believe, a major requirement for

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread James Strachan
On 7/30/06, Cliff Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any further concerns about this proposal? I'd also like commitment from the folks-behind-the-closed-doors that any AMQP TCK will be freely available for Apache to use (maybe only for those who sign the necessary NDAs like when

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
James, Anything that the Working group publishes / works on will be under the license already disclosed. As to TCK, there is a little bit of work in this area in the spec but it does not meet a definition of a TCK. The discussion is still ongoing as to what should the TCK look like. Many of

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Gordon Sim wrote: The current working group is open to new members and is eager for feedback from anyone. Where are the archives of the discussions that have gotten it this far so I can understand what is driving the process and be able to contribute? What

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
Brian, Just as in JCP, OASIS or W3C the real work happens on private channels, that said we are in the process of creating public pages, from which to link user and feedback lists for anyone to read, access and interact with the working group. Thanks for the feedback Carl. Brian

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: Brian, Just as in JCP, OASIS or W3C the real work happens on private channels, that said we are in the process of creating public pages, from which to link user and feedback lists for anyone to read, access and interact with the working

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 8/1/06, Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the question from my email before last is still unanswered: can the spec be forked if the process becomes an insurmountable obstacle for the Glasgow project? I realize this is really based on the terms in the license, but not being a

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: Could you clarify whether you are asking if the Glasgow project could continue in a different direction from the spec, or whether the spec, itself, could be changed/forked and distributed by the ASF? If something were to happen to cause

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
Brian McCallister wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: Could you clarify whether you are asking if the Glasgow project could continue in a different direction from the spec, or whether the spec, itself, could be changed/forked and distributed by the ASF? If something

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
Thanks, Noted, I have been involved more with OASIS in recent years. Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:36 -0400, Carl Trieloff wrote: Brian, Just as in JCP, OASIS or W3C the real work happens on private channels, that said we are in the process of creating public pages,

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Davanum Srinivas
FWIW, OASIS *public* email archives are available here: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ -- dims On 8/1/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Noted, I have been involved more with OASIS in recent years. Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:36 -0400, Carl

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Aug 1, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:36 -0400, Carl Trieloff wrote: Brian, Just as in JCP, OASIS or W3C the real work happens on private channels, that said we are in the process of creating public pages, from which to link user and feedback

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-01 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 8/1/06, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:36 -0400, Carl Trieloff wrote: Brian, Just as in JCP, OASIS or W3C the real work happens on private channels, that said we are in the process of creating

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-31 Thread Brian McCallister
On Jul 29, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote: Does anyone have any further concerns about this proposal? snip / - There was also the question about how the AMQP specification will be handled and licensed. I started this thread with my feelings about that aspect (short version: it looks

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-29 Thread Cliff Schmidt
Does anyone have any further concerns about this proposal? - I think Glasgow is fine since it appears not to conflict with any registered software marks. I don't think we need to be worried about the university reference, and we obviously have several projects already named for cities. I'm

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Kienenberger
On 7/27/06, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem pretty strange to be naming software after a city, though. Apache Tokyo, anyone? Apache New York? But if you have to pick a Scottish city to name it after, I'd recommend Edinburgh - it's a much nicer city anyway. ;-) Yeah, why

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Trieloff
After debate, and many trademark searches we have selected new name that is free of any trademarks in the software space. ( not that easy) The new name for Blaze is Glasgow. I will update the wiki. Regards Carl. Carl Trieloff wrote: Naming of Blaze, Based on all the feedback provided, and

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/27/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After debate, and many trademark searches we have selected new name that is free of any trademarks in the software space. great ( not that easy) not easy at all :-) thanks - robert

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 7/27/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After debate, and many trademark searches we have selected new name that is free of any trademarks in the software space. ( not that easy) The new name for Blaze is Glasgow. I will update the wiki. How about the Glasgow Haskell Compiler?

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Trieloff
Garrett Some of us spoke about this at lunch. As Glasgow is part of the university name, Glasgow Haskell it should not present a conflict. In addition, our legal department has conducted a trademark search of the word Glasgow and come up with no software-related registrations. Regards Carl.

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 7/27/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Some of us spoke about this at lunch. As Glasgow is part of the university name, Glasgow Haskell it should not present a conflict. In addition, our legal department has conducted a trademark search of the word Glasgow and come up with

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Martin Cooper
On 7/27/06, Garrett Rooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Some of us spoke about this at lunch. As Glasgow is part of the university name, Glasgow Haskell it should not present a conflict. In addition, our legal department has

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Craig L Russell
I think of no associations with software projects when hearing Glasgow. Craig On Jul 27, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: On 7/27/06, Garrett Rooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Some of us spoke about this at lunch. As Glasgow

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Martin, For just a moment, I thought you were serious. JavaBeans Activation Framework, 1999. JavaBeans Drag and Drop, 1998. If Glasgow were really a software name to be worried about, I think we might have heard more of it in the last 6 years... Craig On Jul 27, 2006, at 6:48 PM,

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-27 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 28 July 2006 11:48, Martin Cooper wrote: That _is_ the first thing I think of in relation to Glasgow Me too... Does that mean we have been around too long and should plan retirement ;o) Cheers Niclas - To

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Trieloff
Thank you for all the feedback, would it be possible to post a link to this at least one registered for web software as mentioned by someone in the thread. This would be helpful to me. Kind regards, Carl. Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 7/24/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Trieloff
Naming of Blaze, Based on all the feedback provided, and after doing a trademark search, there are 14 trademarks( class 9) around blaze, some in the software space and none in this domain. As suggested by someone on this thread I would like to raise the bar and rename the project. We will look

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-25 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:25, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Adding Apache to the name does not change anything, for the same reason that we cannot release Apache Windows. How about using MacroHard Doors ;o) Cheers Niclas - To

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Trieloff
Roy, This would be consistent at least not within the software category with the proposed name also, so what I am pointing out is just that we are consistent with the status-quo in Apache. Regards Carl. Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: If you

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 7/24/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be consistent at least not within the software category with the proposed name also, so what I am pointing out is just that we are consistent with the status-quo in Apache. Roy explicitly pointed out that Blaze was a registered

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Carl Trieloff wrote: Roy, This would be consistent at least not within the software category with the proposed name also, so what I am pointing out is just that we are consistent with the status-quo in Apache. Carl, it's the software category of patents, not this software category. The

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Trieloff
Please could you post the links to the ones that concern you. I had read Roys comment to be that there they where not used in software in the related domain. I may have read more into the statement than I should have - if I did - sorry. If the measure is use in software then the following

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Trieloff
Thanks, see the other mail I just posted. Carl. William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Carl Trieloff wrote: Roy, This would be consistent at least not within the software category with the proposed name also, so what I am pointing out is just that we are consistent with the status-quo in Apache.

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Carl Trieloff wrote: ... Here are some examples for Derby. Derby is a relational database implemented entirely in java, which entered the Apache Incubator in August 2004. With those points in mind 1) This looks like Cub Scout race management software and the most recent date on the web

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Trieloff
The synapse ones are clearly software though... At this point I am not trying to argue to use or non-use of a name. Just understand how does Apache deals with this. Maybe we should use Synapse as the comp project to understand as it is quite a recent project, and this link

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
I am missing something...Is there a product that they sell named Synapse? I can't find it. -- dims On 7/24/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The synapse ones are clearly software though... At this point I am not trying to argue to use or non-use of a name. Just understand how does

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-24 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Carl, On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: The synapse ones are clearly software though... At this point I am not trying to argue to use or non-use of a name. Just understand how does Apache deals with this. The way Apache deals with this is that you get advice from

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-21 Thread Carl Trieloff
Quick question on trademarks. If you search many of the Apache project names, they are trademarked to gezoo, however if you search Apache XXX it cleans up. Once/one day when the project graduates from Incubator it will also be Apache XXX which is unique. How is this different from any of

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/21/06, Carl Trieloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question on trademarks. If you search many of the Apache project names, they are trademarked to gezoo, however if you search Apache XXX it cleans up. Once/one day when the project graduates from Incubator it will also be Apache XXX

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote: If you search many of the Apache project names, they are trademarked to gezoo, No they aren't, at least not within the software category. Roy - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/19/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was assuming that standard bodies dictate the license to a large extent, and given that those have caused trouble in the past the idea of a new project with that still undefined is a worry. The term standards body is a mental flag :) I asked

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/20/06, Cliff Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If anyone has actually read this far, i have thanks for indulging my thoughts on this. and thanks for taking the time to draft such a comprehensive analysis of the space - robert

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-20 Thread Roy T. Fielding
OTOH, experience has shown that an effective open source project can cause a previously closed standard to be forced into the open or be supplanted. In any case, BLAZE is one of the more over-registered trademarks in the USPTO with 329 applications, most of them live and at least one registered

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 7/20/06, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, experience has shown that an effective open source project can cause a previously closed standard to be forced into the open or be supplanted. +1 In any case, BLAZE is one of the more over-registered trademarks in the USPTO with 329