Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Interaction Between Code-First and Speci

[Mark Little <mlittle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not true. Or at least it need not be the case. Take a look at OASIS
for instance: anyone participating in the OASIS mailing lists has to
sign a disclaimer around IP or they cannot participate in those
discussions. Why can't we do the same?

Mark.

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because a discussion doesn't give you legal rights to the IP, unless the
> discussion is part of a defined process with a legal framework for IP flow.
> That's the specification process we're defining here.
>
> Mark Little wrote on 5/31/18 3:50 AM:
>
> Why does that have to be done through a specification though? Why couldn’t
> it be done through a discussion between likeminded individuals, groups or
> vendors who share the same problem, have different proposed solutions, go
> away and try them, then come back at some time (perhaps pre-determined) to
> share their experiences and move forward to standardise what works? Now that
> problem statement and the range or proposed solutions should be documented
> somewhere and I suppose we could call it an “alpha release of the
> specification” or maybe just on a wiki or mailing list or google doc or
> something else.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> On 31 May 2018, at 07:46, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While there will always be product-specific features, some of which might
> make
> their way into future versions of the specification, wouldn't it also be
> nice if
> multiple independent implementations of new functionality could be created
> simultaneously to experiment with the new features in different contexts and
> with different customers?  I just don't see how to do that without having
> some
> sort of specification being developed at the same time as the
> implementations.
>
>
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