Submission request to W3C
We, W3C Members Microsoft Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, and Qualcomm Corporation hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification comprising the document(s) linked below:
which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the "HTML Threading" submission.
This document describes conventions for using HTML in email. As messages go back and forth between participants in a discussion, it is interesting to be able to track properties of the text in the message and properties of the message itself, such as who wrote what or what message a quoted excerpt is originally from. This proposal defines a mechanism for embedding this information within an email message in a manner that degrades gracefully to downlevel mail clients.
HTML Threading enables user agents (UAs) to easily identify the source message and author for arbitrary runs of text and additionally defines conventions to apply a distinct visual style to text written by various authors.
Separate IETF documents ([MHTML], [MID], and [REL]) discuss how to encapsulate HTML into MIME messages.
Microsoft agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a W3C Recommendation, any W3C member will be able to obtain a license from Microsoft to implement and use the technology described in this contribution for the purposes of supporting the W3C Recommendation on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Microsoft and other companies for their implementation of the W3C Recommendation. Microsoft expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution.
Microsoft expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
Qualcomm agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a W3C Recommendation, any W3C member will be able to obtain a license from Qualcomm to implement and use the technology described in this contribution for the purposes of supporting the W3C Recommendation on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Qualcomm and other companies for their implementation of the W3C Recommendation. Qualcomm expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution.
Qualcomm expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
Lotus agrees that, upon publication of this contribution as a W3C Recommendation, Lotus will make licenses available to its intellectual property rights in its portion of the contribution to any third party for their use, manufacture, sale, distribution, or implementation of any portion of any product, method, or procedure implementing the Recommendation under reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions including royalty rates. Lotus expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution.
Lotus expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
The following are registered marks refered to in this request or the submission: n/a.
The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee.
The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission: n/a.
We suggest that the Consortium adopt the proposal into existing work under either the HTML or Meta-data work areas.
To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide technical editing assistance to the Consortium.
Should any changes be required to the document, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to:
(see names below)
this 5th day of January, 1998,