Council's questions for the Board

[Fotis Jannidis]

From:           	John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu>

> 1.  Should TEI Council members have access to the Members-only section of 
> the TEI web site?
 
> The argument in favor is that there is information there that the Council 
> might well need in order to do its job.  The argument against was less 
> clear to me, at least--but I think it turned on the fact that TEI Council 
> members don't necessarily have to be subscribers or constituents of member 
> institutions.

This comes down to the question whether TEI council members should be personally or via their organization members of the consortium, doesn't it. I think they should  - at 
least as long as individual membership is priced as it is now. 
 
> 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.  I've a query into the lawyer here about whether he might help 
> with this, but I also know that it can be done online, at a cost of about $125.

Yes, it should. In Germany at least names protected as trade marks will always have their way (legally) in questions like domain names etc. 

Fotis Jannidis