Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C Members DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, The Open University, Software AG, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), BT, and National Research Council Canada hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the WRL Submission.
The Web Rule Language WRL is a rule language for the Web and the Semantic Web, based on existing well-known rule languages. The Web Rule Language is envisioned to coexist on the Semantic Web besides the Web Ontology Language OWL.
The statements below concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of their affiliated organizations:
DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, The Open University, Software AG, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), BT, and National Research Council Canada each hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of its copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.
Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, each of these organizations grants a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Each of these organizations further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
Should the Submission not be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, change control of the Submission shall remain with the Submitters.
DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, The Open University, Software AG, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), BT, and National Research Council Canada agree that the trade and service marks that are associated with and identify this specific Submission will be governed by the W3C Trademark and Servicemark License .
DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, The Open University, Software AG, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), BT, and National Research Council Canada all agree to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
No proprietary technology is required to implement the specifications contained in this submission.
We suggest that the Consortium consider this as an input for work in a new Semantic Web Rule Language working group at W3C.
To help with this work, each submitting organization expects, but does not explicitly commit to this, to be able to provide members of the working group. DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria and DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland further expect to be able to provide editors for the deliverables of the working group.
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to Axel Polleres, axel.polleres at deri.org.
20 June, 2005,
Axel Polleres, DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck,
Austria,
Christoph Bussler, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland,
Galway, Ireland,
John Domingue, The Open University
Walter Waterfeld, Software AG
Wassilios Kazakos, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
Graham Travers, BT
Glen Newton, National Research Council Canada