Building Social Web Standards - 2009 W3C Plenary

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building social web standards

David Recordon

[email protected] Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meeting
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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My background


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Open data is increasinglyimportant as services move

online. -Tim OReilly (OSCON


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Common characteristics

From individualsto corporations

Community

Implementationsin many languages

Open Source

opensourceinitiative

TM

To participate andimplement

Free

Rapid at aincreasing p

Adoption


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Community participationthere are hundreds of members per mailing list

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Activity Streams microformats OAuth OpenID PubSubHubbu


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What do they need to be successful?


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What do they need to be successful?


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The Open Web Foundationwere here to help


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The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit

dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-

proprietary specifications for web technologies.

Open Web Foundation The Organization Q & A

Open Web Foundation

The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications.

Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is

aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements

necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification.

The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification,coming out of the realization that we could come together and generalize our efforts. The details

regarding membership, governance, sponsorship, and intellectual property rights will be posted

for public review and feedback in the following weeks.

As we work out the fine details of the foundation, we invite and encourage individuals to come and

join the discussion. To ask questions please visit our Q&A page. You are also invited to join the

community and discuss ideas and specifications you would like to see developed within the

foundation.

RECENT ENTRIES

The Open Web Foundation is

Growing Our RanksThe Open Web Foundation was conceive

year to create a framework which helps

communities behind open web specificat

navigate

By David Recordon | Comments (0)

Announcing the Open Web

FoundationThis morning at OSCON, David Recordo

announced the creation of the Open Web

Foundation. The Open Web Foundation

By Eran | Comments (0)


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Open Web Foundation Agreement

Is understandable by non-lawyers

Written to be simple as possible Allows derivative works (to support version .)

Creates freely implementable specifications


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Open Web Foundation AgreementCopyright

1. Copyright Grant. I grant to you a perpetual (for the duration of theapplicable copyright), worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license, without any obligation for accounting to me,to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publiclyperform, sublicense, distribute, and implement the Specification tothe full extent of my copyright interest in the Specification.

2. Attribution. As a condition of the copyright grant, you must include anattribution to the Specification in any derivative work you makebased on the Specification. That attribution must include, atminimum, the Specification name and version number.


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Open Web Foundation AgreementPatent Non-Assert

1. The Promise. I, on behalf of myself and my successors in interest andassigns, irrevocably promise not to assert my Necessary Claimsagainst you for your Implementation, subject to the following. This isa personal promise directly from me to you, and you acknowledge as acondition of benefiting from it that no rights from me are receivedfrom suppliers, distributors, or otherwise in connection with this

promise. This promise also applies to your making, using, selling,offering for sale, importing or distributing an implementation of anysubsequent derivative works incorporating the Specification 1) onlyto the extent that it implements the Specification, and 2) so long as allrequired portions of the Specification are implemented. This promisedoes not extend to any portion of the derivative work that was notincluded in the Specification.


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Open Web Foundation AgreementPatent Non-Assert Termination

1. As a Result of Claims by You. All rights, grants, and promises made byme to you under this Agreement are terminated if you file, maintain,or voluntarily participate in a lawsuit against me or any person orentity asserting that its Implementation infringes your NecessaryClaims, unless that suit was in response to a corresponding suit firstbrought against you.

2. As Result of Claims by a Related Entity. If a Related Entity of mine files,maintains, or voluntarily participates in a lawsuit asserting that anImplementation infringes its Necessary Claims, then I relinquish anyrights, grants, and promises I have received for the Specification fromother signatories of this Agreement, unless a) my promise to you wasterminated pursuant to section 3.1.2.1, or b) that suit was in response

to a corresponding suit first brought by you against the RelatedEntity.


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Open Web Foundation AgreementA fallback RAND-z patent license

1. Patent License Commitment. In addition to rights granted in 3.1, onbehalf of me and my successors in interest and assigns, I agree togrant to you a no charge, royalty free license to my Necessary Claimson reasonable and non-discriminatory terms solely for your

Implementation.


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Social web standards


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Web standardsthat Im paying attention to

Activity Streams HTML

OpenID

OAuth

OpenSocial

Portable Contacts API

PubSubHubbub

Salmon

WebFinger

XMPP


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Theyre getting major adoption


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Looking at Facebook today


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Facebook the data is interconnectedBob ErinBeth

Servers


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