[FWD: US Revocation of Executive Order 13011]

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

On Friday, the White House announced it was revoking Executive Order
13011 of 1996 that has governed IT management in the government,
including the promotion of standards in IT procurement.  See
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060512-5.html .

It's not clear what the impact on IT standards work in USA could be?

Also - does anyone have any thoughts as to the needs / changes being
addressed in revoking this order?

A copy of E.O. 13011 is found on the NIST Web site, at
http://csrc.nist.gov/fasp/FASPDocs/personnel-sec/federal_it_jul_1996.html.


Not sure if OASIS should care about this or not!

Thanks, DW