Title: Fwd: LS from OMA on OMA IPR Policy practical execution
Date: 29 April 2005 
From: Dean Willis <dean.willis@softarmor.com>

The following text provides a liaison statement from the Open Mobile
Alliance advising the IETF on policy changes relating to certain OMA
specifications. As I understand it, OMA amended their IPR policy to
require OMA members to license IPR needed to implement OMA
specifications under RAND to non-members of OMA in addition to members
of OMA, whereas the previous policy required licensing only to members
of OMA.

The attached ZiP files contains a PDF form of this LS, as well as
another PDF which lists the affected OMA specifications.

--
Dean Willis
IETF Liaison to OMA


Begin forwarded message:

From: <jari.alvinen@nokia.com>
Date: April 29, 2005 4:28:53 AM CDT
To: <dean.willis@softarmor.com>
Subject: OMA IPR Policy practical execution

April 28, 2005


To: Dean Willis, IETF

Subject: OMA IPR Policy practical execution

Dear Mr Willis,


As you might be aware, OMA introduced a change to its IPR policy late
2004, which calls for licensing not just to OMA members, but to non-OMA
members also. The new IPR policy took effect on 1 January 2005. The
practical impact of this change then was as follows:

- Specifications approved by the Technical Plenary and the Board on or
before 31 December 2004 will be governed by the old IPR policy;
- Specifications approved by the Technical Plenary and the Board on or
after 1 January 2005 will be governed by the new IPR policy.

In February 2005, after discussions with the OMA Technical Plenary and
subsequent legal analysis, the OMA Board concluded that it would be in
the interests of the OMA members and our cooperation partners if all of
the existing Specifications would be governed by the new IPR policy.
Subsequently, OMA completed the inventory of the pre-2005
specifications as part of the practical implementation of the new OMA
IPR policy, and the OMA Board Directors have approved these to be
governed under the new IPR policy.

I have attached the inventory, approved by the OMA Board of Directors,
with this letter for your information since we understand that the list
of specifications that were subject to this process would be important
information for you. Additionally, the revised OMA IPR Policy (embedded
in the Membership Agreement) is available at
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/docs/OMA_ApplicationForm_2005.pdf

It is my hope that you will find these actions beneficial to our
cooperation and I am looking forward for our continued collaboration.


Sincerely,

Jari Alvinen
Chairman of the Board
Open Mobile Alliance Ltd


Appendixes in ZIP file:
PDF copy of the letter above
OMA-TP-2005-0050R02-Notification-to-TP-of-changes-in-IPR-rules