> From: Eric Burger <eburger-l(_at_)standardstrack(_dot_)com>
> With my legal services hat on, with the US joining the rest of the
> world with first-to-file, those few weeks of publication could mean the
> difference between a free and open standard and a NPE swooping in and
> attempting to tax the industry.
If that's the concern, there's an easy fix for that one: upload the document
to one of those open file-sharing sites (Scribd, DropBox) and send a pointer
URL to the WG mailing list. That out to count as 'open publication' for
legal purposes.
Noel