On Monday, April 14, 2014 16:53:05 MH Michael Hammer wrote: ... > Suggest away but the notion of such a group, unless well wrangled and with a > well-defined charter, brings back memories of the MARID working group and > its outcome. The failure of MARID was entirely legal and political. At the time the working group was summarily closed there weren't major technical issues left to resolve. When you try to mix two groups of people, one almost exclusively from a free software/open source background with a large corporation that insists on patent licenses that are incompatible with free software/open source no amount of wrangling is going to save it. Scott K