That doesn't require it to be at W3C. Nothing prevents a community-driven covenant.
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Covenant needs to bind the same W3C members who give up EME IPR via patent process, so it must be administered by W3C. Not optional on side.
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No. That's the optimal option, but not the only one. Nothing prevents a separate operation to drive signatures.
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Ignores the leverage that W3C has on Its members, which it uses to get patent covenants, on which its moral authority (diminished) depends.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @wycats and
Clearly that purported leverage is not enough. The options are to try something or give up.
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Replying to @robinberjon @wycats and
Are you trolling now? We have no leverage. W3C had it and failed, up to the Director, to use it. What leverage now, harsh language?
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Your "purported" implies W3C is some passive bystander, a victim of its members' wills. Not so: the Appeal was avoidable.
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"Tim Berners-Lee rejected this covenant proposal." https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170712/10262037770/eff-officially-appeals-tim-berners-lee-decision-drm-html.shtml … Entirely avoidable appeal, TBL could have ruled for compromise.
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Every decision is formally of the Director. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply.
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Replying to @robinberjon @BrendanEich and
And every decision in the UK is formally of the queen.
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I don't think we're "trying" to imply anything. The process failed. The Director pushed through an agenda. Overt claims.
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Replying to @wycats @robinberjon and
Why? You tell me. But reality is incontrovertible.
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