[wtp-pmc] Proposed Modification to WTP Charter Regarding Draft Standards

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

PMC Members,

I'd like to discuss this today. Tim
reported that there were some objections to the wording at the last members
meeting. I'd like to propose a new wording and get agreement from the PMC,
then we should all review it with our companies to ensure no more objections
remain.

Here is the wording with the modifications
proposed by Mike Milinkovich.

"WTP may implement draft standards
provided that the scope of the final version remains consistent with this
Charter, and provided that the relevant standards body will grant Eclipse
sufficient rights to the draft specification to implement them in a manner
consistent with a transparent open source project. "

Here is my proposed wording:

"WTP may implement a draft standard
at the time that the relevant standards body requests public review or
feedback based on implementation experience, e.g. a W3C Candidate Recommendation
[1] or a JCP Public Draft [2],  provided that the domain of the standard
is within the scope of WTP as defined by this Charter and that the relevant
standards body has published the draft standard under licence terms that
allow it to be implemented in a manner consistent with a transparent Open
Source project."

[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/

[2] http://www.jcp.org/en/procedures/overview

Arthur Ryman,
IBM Software Group, Rational Division

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