integrated comments from the PSIG chairs

Author: rigow

2024/psig.html

@@ -75,21 +75,17 @@
       <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group Charter</h1>
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-      <p class="mission">The <a href="https://www.w3.org/2004/pp/psig/">Patents and Standards Interest Group (PSIG)</a> is designed as a forum for W3C Members to discuss matters regarding the W3C Patent Policy as well as W3C copyright in particular and larger issues regarding patents, licenses and Web standards. The PSIG is an Interest Group that gives feedback to the W3C Team, the Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee; PSIG does not make final policy decisions on behalf of W3C.
+      The <p class="mission">The <a href="https://www.w3.org/2004/pp/psig/">Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group (PSIG)</a> is designed as a forum for W3C Members and Invited Experts to discuss and provide feedback on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) matters concerning W3C, including the W3C Patent Policy and W3C copyright in particular as well as larger issues regarding intellectual property rights, patents, licenses and Web standards. The PSIG is an Interest Group that gives feedback to the W3C Team, the Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee; PSIG does not make final policy decisions on behalf of W3C.
       </p>
 
       <p>
-      PSIG is a forum for W3C Members and Invited Experts to discuss and provide feedback to the W3C Team, the Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee on IPR questions.
-      </p>
-
-      <p>
-      PSIG may suggest further policy development and draft documents for such additional policies. Any policy development would be subject to Advisory Committee and Director review.
+      PSIG may suggest further policy development and draft documents for such additional policies. <span class="todo">Any policy development would be subject to review by the Advisory Board, the Advisory Committee and may also be submitted for review by the Board of Directors at the discretion of PSIG, the W3C Team, the Advisory Board or the Advisory Committee review.</span>
       </p>
       <!-- the link to the group is ALWAYS that available from https://www.w3.org/groups/wg or https://www.w3.org/groups/ig because each group page can then point to a different homepage, but not the other way around. -->
 
 
       <div class="noprint">
-        <p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/[shortname]/join">Join the Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group.</a></p>
+        <p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/[shortname]/join">Join the Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group.</a><span class="todo">Diff to redline, make URI</span></p>
       </div>
 
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@@ -114,15 +110,23 @@ <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group
               Start date
             </th>
             <td>
-              <i class="todo">01 January 2025</i>
+              <i>01 January 2025</i>
             </td>
           </tr>
           <tr id="CharterEnd">
             <th>
               End date
             </th>
             <td>
-              <i class="todo">31 December 2026</i>
+              <i>31 December 2026</i>
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <th>
+              Confidentiality
+            </th>
+            <td>
+              Proceedings are Member-only
             </td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
@@ -157,7 +161,7 @@ <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group
   <section id="background">
     <h2>Motivation and Background</h2>
     <p>
-      In May 2003, t he W3C Director, on the advice of the W3C Membership, approved the W3C Patent Policy as the governing document for patent matters in W3C Recommendations. The Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG), which developed that policy over a more than three year period, assisted the Team with the implementation of the policy, and the PPWG then closed.
+      In May 2003, the W3C Director, on the advice of the W3C Membership, approved the W3C Patent Policy as the governing document for patent matters in W3C Recommendations. The Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG), which developed that policy over a more than three year period, assisted the Team with the implementation of the policy, and the PPWG then closed.
     </p>
 
     <p>
@@ -189,16 +193,16 @@ <h2>Motivation and Background</h2>
 
   <section id="scope" class="scope">
     <h2>Scope</h2>
-      <p class="todo">
-        The discussion concerning the scope of the Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group was already started. The PSIG has not found a majority to treat legal subject matter beyond the patent policy and the W3C copyright licenses.
+      <p>
+        The scope of the Patents &amp; Standards Interest Group is limited to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) related topics and issues, and does not extend to other legal issues unrelated to IPR.
       </p>
 
       <p>
-      The W3C Team, Advisory Board and Advisory Committee may request that the PSIG provide feedback regarding the W3C Patent Policy, issues related to patent commitments for participants in current and proposed W3C activities (for example, continuous development), and other IPR issues. The PSIG may also exchange views and flag issues regarding the W3C Patent Policy. It may produce non-binding Interest Group Notes on those specific issues.
+        The W3C Team, the Advisory Board, the Advisory Committee, and the Board of Directors may request that the PSIG provide feedback regarding the W3C Patent Policy, issues related to patent commitments for participants in current and proposed W3C activities (for example, continuous development), and other IPR issues. The PSIG may also exchange views and flag issues regarding the W3C Patent Policy. It may produce non-binding Interest Group Notes on those specific issues.
       </p>
 
-      <p>
-      The PSIG will review, but is not responsible for formally documenting or implementing, W3C IPR policies.
+      <p class="todo">
+      The PSIG will review and may suggest changes to, but is not responsible for formally documenting or implementing, W3C IPR policies.
       </p>
     </section>
 
@@ -208,11 +212,11 @@ <h2>
       </h2>
 
       <p>
-      As an Interest Group, the PSIG issues neither Recommendations nor other binding policy documents. It may draft policy documents or amendments to existing policy documents for Advisory Comittee review.
+      As an Interest Group, the PSIG issues neither Recommendations nor other binding policy documents. It may draft policy documents or amendments to existing policy documents for Advisory Committee review.
       </p>
 
       <p>
-      The PSIG is responsible for maintaining the <a href="https://www.w3.org/2020/09/15-pp-faq.html">Patent Policy FAQ</a>. W3C participants can raise questions or comments on the W3C Patent Policy or Patent Policy FAQ via the <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Patents and Standards Interest Group public comment mailing list</a>, or to W3C Team. The PSIG reviews proposed FAQ changes or new FAQ entries as follows:
+      The PSIG is responsible for maintaining the <a href="https://www.w3.org/2020/09/15-pp-faq.html">Patent Policy FAQ</a>. W3C participants can raise questions or comments on the W3C Patent Policy or Patent Policy FAQ via the <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Patents and Standards Interest Group public comment mailing list</a>, or to the W3C Team. The PSIG reviews proposed FAQ changes or new FAQ entries as follows:
       </p>
 
       <p>
@@ -237,7 +241,7 @@ <h2>
 	  <h2>Success Criteria</h2>
 
         <p class="todo">
-          PSIG itself does not create new documents and thus has no document related success criteria. PSIG is there to solve issues arising from the interpretation of the W3C Patent Policy and from the W3C Copyright licenses.
+          PSIG is not assessed based on any document related success criteria.
         </p>
 
   </section>
@@ -270,11 +274,13 @@ <h2 id="communication">Communication</h2>
 
       <p>
        To contact the Group or raise an issue with the Group, a message can be sent to the Chairs or the Team contact of the PSIG. Members may write directly to the PSIG's <a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-psig/">PSIG Member only mailing-list</a>.
-        </p>
+      </p>
 
-        <p>Participants in the group are required (by the <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#ParticipationCriteria">W3C Process</a>) to follow the
-          W3C <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/">Code of Conduct</a>.</p>
-      </section>
+      <p>
+        Participants in the group are required (by the <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#ParticipationCriteria">W3C Process</a>) to follow the
+          W3C <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/">Code of Conduct</a>.
+      </p>
+  </section>
 
   <section id="decisions">
     <h2>
@@ -344,6 +350,9 @@ <h3>
             </ul>
             <li>2023-06-26: Team Contact list updated after staff changes that occurred earlier in 2023.</li>
             <li>Charter extended on 22 May 2024 until 30 September 2024. The group plans to re-charter (track <a href="https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/460">the progress on the new charter</a>).</li>
+            <li>
+              The Group was further extended until 31 December 2024 to make additional time for the rechartering.
+            </li>
           </ol>
         </section>
 
@@ -363,7 +372,9 @@ <h3>Change log</h3>
         <section>
           <h3 id="contact">Contact</h3>
           <ol>
-            <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Sarah Dukmen</a> (Amazon), <a href="mailto:[email protected]"> Anna Weinberg</a> (Apple), Chairs</li>
+            <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Sarah Dukmen</a> (Amazon, co-Chair)</li>
+            <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]"> Anna Weinberg</a> (Apple, co-Chair)</li>
+            <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Ishna Neamatullah</a> (Google, co-Chair)</li>
             <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Rigo Wenning</a> (W3C), Team Contact</li>
           </ol>
         </section>
@@ -383,7 +394,7 @@ <h3 id="contact">Contact</h3>
   <a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks">trademark</a> and
       <a rel="license" href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document" title="W3C Software and Document Notice and License">permissive document license</a> rules apply.</p>
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-      <p><span class='todo'><a href="https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts">Yes, it's on GitHub!</a>.</span></p>
+      <p><a href="https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/blob/gh-pages/2024/psig.html">Charter on GitHub!</a>.</p>
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