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Subject: Re: [egov-ms] EU Consultation on European Interop Strategy
Hello Charles and colleagues, I would like to share information and impressions I have recently gained from discussions with different parts of the European Commission. At present, to summarize, the DG Info Society is probably the most open in its policies. IDABC, who isued the EIS, is also pushing for reform but it is more cautious. Finally, DG Enterprise, which is where the responsibility for ICT standardization lies in the EU, is the more conservative. This needs to be taken into account when you consider OASIS eGov strategy. In addition, the whole of the European Commission is subject to heavy lobbying by IT companies, especially those who wish to push the status quo and their proprietory standards over "open" standards and interoperability. This activity makes the oficials in the Comission nervous. Then a third level is the lack of coherence in the views of the EU Member States, where countries like UK, Sweden and France are rather more reformist than the more conservative ones, especially Germany and Spain and Portugal. In these circumstances, it is not surprising that there is no clear direction! The reality is that in the EU there is no consensus. Regarding your first point on "open" standards, I agree that it is the role of the OASIS eGov group to press for clarification. I hope that you will do so in a commentary on the Consultation on the EIS. Regarding the status of OASIS and other international standards consortia, this is very difficult. Soon DG Enterprise will issue a Consultation Document. When this comes out, I think we should discuss the best way to respond.I suggest that you focus on the second Consultation (it is not open yet) for the issue of the status of recognition of OASIS standards. For more than a year I have been a member of the EXPRESS Panel on the reform of the European Standardization System. The Panel was dominated by conservative interests from the European and national standards organizarions. I attach a copy of the final Report. Personally I was disappointed that we made little progress, but the great majority of the members resisted any change to the current system. I hope these comments help to move the debate forward in a positive way. Best wishes, Carol Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello John, > > I have one but rather important request to formulate here, as I believe it is vital for this document : Because of various delays and watering down of other recommendations and other types of documents issued by the European Commission we find ourselves in a situation where no clear direction is being set and imprecise notions are causing confusion and lack of applicability and understanding of european policy. > > With respect to the EIS then, I would like the eGov Steering Committee to make a clear request to the Commission to define more precisely what they mean by Open Standards. > > Another, indirectly related but welcome inclusion would be to ask for a better consideration of the OASIS and other similar SDOs status with respect of their standing with the commission. I do not believe, but I don't think I'm the only one here, that the EUCOM can carry on considering the ETSI, the CEN - CENELEC and the ITU as their "first tier" standardization referrals. This does not reflect the ongoing changes in the state of the art of digital standards. > > Best Regard, > > Charles. > > Le 18 mars 2010 à 15:56, John Borras a écrit : > > >> To All Members >> >> The eGov MS Steering Committee plans to respond to the consultation on the new European Interoperability Strategy, see details below. If Members have any particular views or opinions they would like us to incorporate in our response please let me have them by the end of next week, 26th March. >> >> Regards >> John Borras >> Chair eGov Member Section >> >> __________________________________________________________________________________ >> >> See: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7854 >> >> Objective: >> Since 2009 the European Commission has been working on the elaboration >> of the European Interoperability Strategy for European Public Services >> in close cooperation with the concerned Commission services and with the >> Members States as well as with the Candidate Countries and EEA Countries >> as observers. >> >> *The main objectives of the European Interoperability Strategy for >> European Public Services are:* >> >> * to identify commonalities and areas of shared interest at Member >> State and EU level >> * to establish consensus around a strategic action plan for >> interoperability, to be implemented in the coming years by both >> the EU Member States and the Commission. >> >> The Consultation closes on April 4th 2010. >> > > Charles-H. 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EXP 384 EXPRESS REPORT FINAL.pdf
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