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I don't think that comments like this are useful.

The W3C, IETF, OASIS, and other formal standards bodies do a lot of useful work. There are communities creating open specifications in ad-hoc fashions and those are the ones OWF is mainly looking to help out. – daveman692, on July 25, 2008 08:31

My guess is that for a lot of specs that need to have clean IPR hygiene, but aren't really concerned with official status (at least in the short term), the OWF will probably be the end of the line (in terms of standardization).

But for some things, you *have* to go to formal standards bodies. There are literally some orgs that can't use specs that don't come from ISO, for example.

This org is an attempt to make the mechanics of around IPR become "non issues" for communities of interest around technologies (to the extent such a community is interested in making a truly open web - if someone has patents and doesn't want to participate - there's nothing much that can be done there).

From Larry Halff: "The server restarted itself and everything was back by the time I saw this. I think the hardware it's on is actually a lemon. I just need to find the time to move it to one of our production machines in the cabinet. I'll set myself a deadline of Friday for this."

We're starting to look like Twitter... not sure what's up but will look into it.