Dear OCCI Working Group, Following recent emails, I would like to assure the OCCI Working Group and all contributors that the documents that have been produced by OCCI in accordance with OGF policies do indeed retain the OGF IPR. OGF IPR Policy protects every contributor by ensuring that all contributions have been made in good faith in the spirit of open collaboration with up-front disclosure of any licensing encumbrances. It also protects implementors so that implementations may be made with confidence based on persistent specifications which will have neither content nor licensing changed retroactively. These protections are clearly identified in OGF's IPR Policy, and are explicitly agreed to whenever someone contributes to OGF work by opening a GridForge account, joining an OGF mailing list, or attending an OGF working group session by phone or in person. The full policy may be found here: http://www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFIPRPolicy.pdf If anyone has patent claims or other encumbrances to their individually contributed portions that were not disclosed at the time of contribution, please contact me, the OGF Executive Director. Note that I have received no such communications to date, nor were any objections raised during the open Public Comment period of the group's documents. Additionally, I would like to congratulate the OCCI-WG on the very well-received demo at OGF29 and look forward to your continued success in support of the OGF mission. Well done! Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF29 * June 20-22, 2010 * Chicago * www.ogf.org/OGF29 OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30