Status of This Document
This document is part a series of documents that describe
W3C Technical Report Publication Policies.
Guidelines
- If a group is managed under the Implementation of the Patent Policy (IPP), the status section SHOULD include a link
directly to the group's IPP "status page". For example, see the
Voice Browser Working Group status page.
- If a group has a history of disclosures prior to being managed under IPP, the group MUST provide public access to the history. Suggested approaches
(which may all be used):
- Include a link from the public group home page to the historical
disclosures.
- Link from the status section of the document to the page with the
historical disclosures. At the top of that document, inform users that
after some date, disclosures are managed through IPP (and link to the
IPP status page).
- Otherwise, the group should link to an instantiation of this
disclosure page template
and should create a WBS form based on this
WBS disclosure template that may be used by anyone.
Background
Once the W3C
Patent Policy Transition Procedure became operational (15 February
2004), all W3C groups follow the disclosure procedures of section
6 of the 5 February
2004 W3C Patent Policy. In particular, section 6.3 states:
Disclosure requests will be included in the "Status of This Document" section of each Recommendation track document as it reaches each new maturity level (Working Draft, Last Call Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, Recommendation).
W3C's Publication Rules ("pubrules")
requires a link to instructions for how to disclose. The details are
left to pubrules proper in order to allow for evolution. This document
provides guidelines for linking to disclosure instructions.
Please send comments to Ian Jacobs,
W3C Head of Communications.
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