Member Review - Revised OASIS Membership Agreement

OASIS Board of Directors,

On behalf of Lucent 
Technologies, I am attaching comments addressing the proposed revision of the 
OASIS Membership 
Agreement.   We recommend 
modifications to Sections 2.1 and 2.2, and the deletion of Section 9 for the 
reasons described below. 

Thank you for your consideration and for 
the opportunity to comment. 

Wayne Zeuch
OASIS Voting Member
Lucent Technologies
Bell Laboratories - 
Advanced Technologies
101 Crawfords Corner Road  (Rm 
4C-612A)
Holmdel, NJ  07747
Tel: +1 732 949 5077
Email: 

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Lucent's Comments on the Revised 
OASIS Membership Agreement 

 

(1) A Member (as in an organizational member) cannot 
make the acknowledgements required in 2.1 and 2.2, since only a representative 
or representatives of a Member may have reviewed either the Bylaw or 
Intellectual Property Policy or other policies.  It should be sufficient to simply state 
that the Member will abide by the various documents (if a Member chooses not to 
have anyone review the documents, then that's their choice).  We suggest amending the clauses as 
follows:

 

2.1. Bylaws. The Member acknowledges that it has reviewed a copy 
 agrees to abide by the terms 
of the Bylaws of 
OASIS, as they appear at http://www.oasis-open.org/who/[STAFF TO COMPLETE 
URL] (the "Bylaws") . 
The Member agrees to abide by the terms of the Bylaws, and as the same may from time to time be 
amended by the Board of Directors of OASIS (the "Board") in the future and 
distributed to the Membership. 

 

2.2. Intellectual Property Rights 
("IPR") Policy and Other Policies. The Member acknowledges that it has reviewed a copy 
 agrees to abide by the terms 
of (a) the IPR Policy 
of OASIS as it appears at 
[http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php], (b) the Antitrust 
Policy of OASIS as it appears at [http://www.oasis-open.org/who/[STAFF TO 
COMPLETE URL]]; and (c) any other Policies applicable to members as they 
appear at [http://www.oasis-open.org/who/[STAFF TO COMPLETE URL] 
]. The Member agrees to abide by the terms of 
the foregoing Policies. The Member acknowledges that some of its 
obligations under the IPR Policy may survive the termination of this Agreement 
and its membership in OASIS, as more fully described in such Policy. OASIS 
acknowledges that the Member is not obligated to announce or market any product 
or service, or to implement any OASIS specification. 

 

(2) Section 9 (Signatures: Affiliated Entities) is unnecessarily 
complex and burdensome.  While we do 
not understand the rationale behind this section, we propose that this section 
should be deleted in its entirety.  
There should instead be a simple statement to the effect that the Member 
is signing the agreement on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, to the extent 
that it has the right to do so (to license the patents of its 
Affiliates).

 

  
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