DKIM Deployment

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

We had what I regard as a very successful initial meeting of DDX on 
Sunday.  While writing up the minutes, it occurred to me that we were 
delinquent in dealing with an important administrative item.

This is the intellectual property regime for the activity.  For those who 
haven't run into this before, it's important when working with lots of 
people from different places to have upfront agreement about how shared 
work can be used, trying to avoid nasty issues later involving lawyers and 
license fees and cease-and-desist orders and such.  Internet2-based 
activities use a standard framework:

  http://www.internet2.edu/membership/ip.html

I propose that we use the "Standard Approach" described on that page for 
DDX.  While everyone should read what this says carefully and discuss it 
with their counsel, I'll summarize it as:  anything produced or said in 
the context of the activity (meetings, mailing list, wiki, etc) is made 
freely available to all.  If and when we get to the point of have real 
product, like reports and software, we will decide on ownership, but in 
any case those products will be freely available, under an open-source 
license if appropriate.  If you have IPR on anything you want to 
contribute to the work, you need to disclose that up front so we can deal 
with it.

I think this is consistent with practice in other venues, eg IETF working 
groups.

This implies that the minutes from meetings, including the Sunday meeting, 
will be openly available via the mailing list archive and via the wiki.

If anyone has any objection to this, let me know real soon.

 - RL "Bob"