Council's questions for the Board

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:18:16PM -0500, John Unsworth wrote:
> meeting last Saturday:  please vote yes or no on each question.
> 
> 1.  Should TEI Council members have access to the Members-only section of 
> the TEI web site?

no.

> The argument in favor is that there is information there that the Council 
> might well need in order to do its job.
in which case it should be in another area of the web site

why set up a mechanism of membership and then immediately disregard it?
 
> 2. Should the TEI trademark its name?
> 
> The question arose in connection with the discussion of certification of 
> services, validation of data, etc., and the argument was that trademarking 
> would protect "The Text Encoding Initiative" as a label controlled by the 
> Consortium.  

no. its too culture-specific to spend the TEIC money on more and
more lawyers. as Jan says, can we afford to bring a case? no. so why
bother? 


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