At the last OAGi Board Meeting, it was agreed that new procedures would be put in place to ensure that all workgroups were in compliance with OAGi's IPR policy.  An approved version of these new procedures is not yet available but they will require that all members of an OAGi working group (including membership in the yahoo group) must be a current OAGi member OR an Invited Expert.  Invited experts must be appointed by the working group Chair and approved by the OAGi Chief Architect.

Anyone not meeting these criteria will eventually be removed from the working group yahoo group and will only have access to public work group material posted on the OAGi home site (www.openapplications.org).

If you are a current or prospective member of this work group and feel that you meet one of the two criteria for membership, please send the following information to garret.minakawa@....

• Name
• Organization
• Title/Position
• Email
• Phone

If you feel you qualify as an invited expert, also include a brief description of your qualifications.

Official notification of these new procedures and additional details should follow within the next few weeks.

Regards,

garret