[Announcement] The Porter Project Proposals - JDP process

{This mail formally announces the acceptance of these Proposals
  into the JDP process.}

The Porter Proposals have been submitted to become full Standards
in the Jini Community. We are starting the "Debate" period on the
Proposals.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Proposals (Bylaws I.J.) can be found at:
  http://www.jini.org/nonav/standards/Proposals/Porter/proposal.html
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Owner (Bylaws I.G.) of the Proposals is Sun Microsystems,
and the Shepherd (Bylaws I.M.) is Bob Scheifler.

The Approving Standards ( jini.org/jdp/v0.7/Ratification.html )
supporting document in the JDP outlines the required and
suggested constructs of Proposals, as well as the general
process for approving Standards in the Jini Community.

This mail officially announces the Proposals, and thus begins
the "Debate" period of the process. The Debate period, as
outlined in JDP Bylaws III.B., will run at least four weeks. This
is the time to give the Proposal submissions a good review and
engage in discussion regarding their merits.

-Jim
[email protected]


Begin forwarded message:
> From: Bob Scheifler <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Mar 29, 2005  2:26:51 PM US/Eastern
> To: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Subject: Porter Project Proposals submitted for community approval
>
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. is submitting 22 Proposals covering both
> licensing and technical changes to 40 existing specifications plus one
> new specification to the Jini Community for approval as Standards
> under the Jini Community Decision Process (JDP). The number of
> specifications is large in part because we are proposing to change
> their licensing, switching away from the Sun Community Source License
> (SCSL), and moving to the Apache License, Version 2.0 plus the Jini
> Community Standards Patent Non-Assertion Covenant. The number of
> proposals is large because, based on earlier feedback from the
> community, we have placed independent specification changes into
> independent proposals.
>
> The materials comprising the Proposals are:
>  * Summaries of the proposed technical changes
>  * New and revised specifications, licensed under the Apache License,
>    Version 2.0 plus the Jini Community Standards Patent Non-Assertion
>    Covenant
>  * Marked-up differences between existing and proposed standards
>    (subject to the limitations of JDiff, and change bars in PDF files)
>  * The Jini Technology Starter Kit v2.1Beta release, which includes
>    source and binary implementations of the proposed specifications
>  * Test suites
>
> The Proposals are available here:
>   http://www.jini.org/nonav/standards/Proposals/Porter/proposal.html
>
> We encourage everyone in the community to review these proposals, with
> discussion taking place on [email protected].
>
> - Bob

===========================================================================
To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] and include in the body
of the message "signoff JAVASPACES-USERS".  For general help, send email to
[email protected] and include in the body of the message "help".

To view past JAVASPACES-USERS postings, please see:
http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/javaspaces-users.html

JDC members can download the JavaSpaces(tm) Technology from:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/jini/