OASIS ODF 1.2, the current version of the Open Document Format standard, was approved by ISO/IEC JTC1 National Bodies after a 3-month Publicly Available Specification (PAS) ballot. The final vote for DIS 26300 was: 17-0 for Parts 1 and 2, and 18-0 for Part 3. Of course, this is a very good result and all […]
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ODF 1.2 Submitted to ISO
Last Wednesday, March 26th, on Document Freedom Day, OASIS submitted Open Document Format 1.2 standard to the ISO/IEC JTC1 Secretariat for transposition to an International Standard under the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) procedure. If you recall, the PAS procedure is what we used back in 2005 when ODF 1.0 was submitted to ISO and was […]
The New Technology Consumers
There were those who complained about the labor conditions of those who picked grapes and sewed t-shirts. About pesticides on apples and growth hormones in milk. About generically modified corn and soy. About how governments conduct foreign policy, how they treat prisoners of war, how they collect intelligence, how they make treaties and how they […]
Invitation: Join the “openstandards” sub-reddit
For a couple of years I’ve been trying to find a good way to share and discuss news, articles, blog posts, etc., about open standards. I’m not very pleased with the results. I’ve tried putting out weekly links of relevant articles on my blog. Although this is semi-automated, it is severely limited, since only has […]
The Recipe for Open Standards (and Why ISO Can’t Cook)
Recipe First some definitions. Let’s define an “open standard” as one that is: 1) freely available, 2) developed in an open process and 3) freely implementable, e.g., is royalty free. Clearly there are interests out there that attempt to soften these criteria, but that only demonstrates the competitive power presented by truly open standards. We […]