The French Interoperability Framework RGI 1.0 is out and officially enacted.
Here is the readers digest quote from an interoperability specialist’s rant about the French paper:
- the document is of poor quality. By this I mean that you do not expect this kind of document stemming from a french central administration: a few spellchecking errors, [...]
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RGI 1.0 has landed
Posted in standards, tagged interoperability, EIF, RGI, Malmö on 12/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
ISA interoperability programme adopted
Posted in European Union, standards, tagged EIF, eu, IDABC, interoperability, isa, reuse, standards on 23/04/2009 | 4 Comments »
Today the European Parliament adopted the report on the EU Commission’s ISA programme, the follow-up programme of IDABC. The trilog process further improved the Committee report which included a few amendments that for instance forced the Commission ISA programme to spent 50% of its budget on the local level. They are gone in the version [...]
Open XML adopted as an ANSI standard
Posted in standards, tagged ansi, ISO, ooxml, standards on 16/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
ISO/IEC 29500 Open XML was transformed in an ANSI standard. Apparently the support of IBM gave a surprise to other industry representatives. Rob Weir explains in Gray Knowlton’s blog that this was no vote but a formality.
Although we (and many others) continue to have serious concerns about the suitability of OOXML as a standard, and [...]
AMQP at Fosdem
Posted in Future of the Web, floss, standards, tagged amqp, fosdem09, hintjens, messaging, standard on 07/04/2009 | 1 Comment »
Pieter talks about his Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) brainchild at Fosdem 2009. It is an Open Standard for Messaging Middleware developed by Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Börse Systems, Envoy Technologies Inc.,Goldman Sachs, IONA Technologies PLC, iMatix Corporation sprl.,JPMorgan Chase Bank Inc. N.A, Microsoft Corporation, Novell, Rabbit Technologies Ltd., Red Hat Inc., Tervela Inc., [...]
Chapeau, Bruce Perens
Posted in standards, tagged fat, patent, Perens on 03/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The patent situations moves quickly again and you don’t have the time to analyse and comment on all issues. Bruce Perens helps out with a great article about the FAT situation. I could not agree more. I wonder how long it will take to mainstream that view in the States. There is another rather personal [...]
US @ WIPO: No ISO standard crisis
Posted in Future of the Web, standards, tagged ISO, kei, ooxml, standards, wipo on 28/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
Washington KEI kindly put an intervention online; it comes from the US delegation at the WIPO SCP session. An organisation I am affiliated with, the FFII, is represented by Dr Bakels at the meeting under its WIPO observer status. As of myself I thought that meeting would be unamusing, but instead I stumble upon the [...]
