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WHAT: Steering Group Teleconference
WHEN: Monday, April 28, 2008 at 21:00 - 22:00 GMT
- San Francisco: 2pm
- Boston: 5pm
- London: 10pm
- Berlin: 11pm
- Hong Kong: 5am (April 29)
- Tokyo: 6am (April 29)
- Sydney: 7am (April 29)
WHO: Open to any contributors
WHERE:
PRE WORK:
PROPOSED AGENDA:
- Introductions
- Brady Brim-DeForest Legal Project Overview
- add additional topics (+ your name)
MEETING OUTPUT:
- Legal Research Next Steps
Minutes
Attendees:
Full Name (Skype Name)
J. Trent Adams (jtrentadams)
Brett McDowell (myidiym)
Dan Brickley (danbrickley)
Mary Trigiani (mtrigiani)
Drummond Reed (drummondreed)
Chris Saad (chris.saad)
Steve Greenberg (greenbes)
Brady Brim-DeForest (bradybd)
Phil Wolff (evanwolf)
Agenda Items:
* Introductions (skipped)
* Brady leads discussion on the "Legal Entity Task Force"
* Chris proposed a "Policy Research Task Force"
Legal Entity Task Force Discussion:
Created a "Legal Entity Task Force" wiki page:
http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/DataPortability+Legal+Entity+Taskforce
Created a mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilityorg
Options on the table:
A) Formation of non profit
B) Formation of profit
C) Join an umbrella group:
* IEEE-ISTO (Brett's proposal, will provide responses to questions)
* IETF 
* Tide Center (Nancy proposed, could be an answer point?)
* W3C Incubator (Dan Brickley will help answer questions)
* ISOC
* Identity Commons(Drummond Reed will research)
Dan Brickley provided more insight into the W3C
* Example: Semantic Web Best Practices Group
* Will circulate links on 'best practice' work at w3c
Dan Brickley also provided info on how the FOAF project could cross-benefit with the DataPortability Project
Chris brought up idea to research how controled standards like DVD and WiFi are managed
Steve Greenberg mentioned that the DVD IP is owned by a single holding company (ie. DVDforum.org).
Brett suggests: We should identify goals, then select the right option that fits our needs.
Questions to research:
* Can the entity hold IP (what types)? If so, how does it get in and back out?
* Can the entity hold money? If so, how does it get in and back out?
* What reputation does the entity have within the community? How do we assess it?
* What are the costs / requirments to become part of the entity?
* What are the ongoing costs to remaining a part of the entity?
* What are the precidents for of each of the questions being applied in the wild?
* What precident is there for this entity to help organizations achieve their goals?
Chris suggests: We assess community standing of an organization using a light-weight survey mechanism for people to express their general sentiments for the identified entities.
Brett suggests other survey questions:
* What organizations have you had a good experience with?
* What are the financial models for the
Brett warns: What if there is a disconnect between the survey responses and suitability as an organization?
* Consensus answer: Need to phrase survey carefully to avoid sense of a "vote", and more of a "what are your thoughts" kind of outreach.
Brett asks: Are we looking at a short term patch, or the full-term solution?
* Consensus answer: It sounds like there's no need to push for a stop-gap, might as well look for the "right" solution.
Brady will:
* work on generating the survey questions.
* Reach out to Creative Commons group for synergies
* Present another update at next week's call.
Milestones:
* Still under assessment.
* Need more volunteers before being able to set milestone dates.
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Policy Research Task Force Discussion
In reaction to the lively Policy Chat Room discussion today: (summary URL coming soon)
Chris: Do we need task forces around defining official "EULA and Terms" sheets
Steve nominated himself to:
* Form and steer a "Policy Research Task Force"
* Research existing projects and report back possible foundations from which to build.
* Specifically: examples of good Bill of Rights AND/OR T&Cs AND/OR Recommended boilerplate EULAs
Conference call recording, back channel transcript
Next meetings
- May 5th, 2008 - 21:00 GMT
Feedback on the meeting itself
