RE: [egov] [FWD: US Revocation of Executive Order 13011]

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Yeah, mom didn't raise any shrinking violets.

If the eGov TC can set the stage internationally for a number of 
high-visibility programs, perhaps in the area of mutual aid in 
disaster response, along with adoption of standards that promote 
interoperabiity of programs in health informatics and healthcare 
delivery at the same time, then I think we could make sure that genie 
never even gets close to the bottle again. However, never 
underestimate the interests whose rice bowl is being endangered.

Ciao,
Rex

At 10:40 AM -0700 5/17/06, David RR Webber \(XML\) wrote:
>Rex,
>
>Some people are less shy than others - and the ostriches clearly have
>their heads deep into the sand at this point. ; -)
>
>When a fine public company like RedHat is making $500M annually
>providing support for open source solutions - and has GSA listings for
>services to boot - not to mention IBM having many major open source
>tools in full use in government - and then the Apache Foundation
>running most of gov websites to open standards - the genie does indeed
>appear to be well out of the bottle!  it may well be mute too - as the
>propretiary license model is giving way across the board in industry
>too - to a service model and open software construction using
>components.
>
>I guess what we really need is part of NIST to be assigned to promoting
>better use of open public standards for government applications by the
>agencies...?!?   A role I know they are already indirectly doing much
>of.
>
>Is the eGov TC a pivot point here?  Where new and emerging standards can
>be promoted for eGov - while at the same time providing means for
>government to articulate its needs and barriers and of course
>highlighting common use cases and success case studies?
>
>DW
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
>Subject: RE: [egov] [FWD: US Revocation of Executive Order 13011]
>From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
>Date: Wed, May 17, 2006 1:00 pm
>To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>, John Borras
><johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>
>Cc: eGov <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
>
>It means that the CIOs of various executive branch agencies won't be
>able to get together officially to promulgate policies such as
>adoption of voluntary consensus standards set out in virtually
>unenforceable Circulars from the Office of Management and Budget, and
>it follows shutting down the Federal Enterprise Architecture Program
>Management Office in kind if not in particulars. Taken together with
>the ongoing turf shifts in GSA and DHS, in toto I would say that the
>largish contractors are busy behind the scenes seeing to it that
>proprietary solutions from megasaurs are protected. It also pretty
>seriously puts the [blank] to the myth of the Presidential Management
>Agenda for citizen-centric governmental reform.
>
>However, it may actually be too late to put the genie of open public
>standards back in the bottle, and the ethic of collaboration in the
>interest of saving taxpayer monies wasted on proprietary solutions
>may actually be too healthy to suppress.
>
>However, as for the actual PMA, I think you can put it up on that
>shelf with the Mars Mission, the Moonbase, and No Child Left Behind.
>However, big ticket giveaways, like the Medicare Drug Plan, even if
>it hides behind the facade of a social benefit, are still viable.
>
>Even the Republican base are fed up with the spending. Of course,
>they still see only social program spending as bad, but they are now
>balking at the congressional log-rolling that has been done to keep
>the big tickets bouncing along in their juggernaut.
>
>Anyone who is surprised by this better be getting a reality check.
>
>Ciao,
>Rex
>
>At 7:18 AM -0700 5/17/06, David RR Webber \(XML\) wrote:
>>John,
>>
>>Questions indeed - seems that the US community is somewhat baffled
>>here too - given the article in FCW
>>
>>
>><http://www.fcw.com/article94533-05-16-06-Web>http://www.fcw.com/article94533-05-16-06-Web
>  >
>>Enquiring minds would definately like to have more answers as to
>>what exactly prompted this at this time - other than someone had a
>>"tickler" alert setup some years ago to review this and it just
>>kicked in!?!
>>
>>Lessening bureaucracy hardly seems to be a key goal of the current
>>administration!?
>>
>>DW
>>
>>
>>
>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject: Re: [egov] [FWD: US Revocation of Executive Order 13011]
>>From: John Borras <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>
>>Date: Tue, May 16, 2006 4:06 am
>>To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
>>Cc: eGov <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>
>>#wmMessageComp DIV {margin:0px}
>>It's only the role of the Director of OMB that's being revoked which
>>may be about lessening bureaucracy rather than revoking the need for
>>IT Standards?
>>John
>>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info>
>>To: eGov <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>Sent: Monday, 15 May, 2006 5:59:09 PM
>>Subject: [egov] [FWD: US Revocation of Executive Order 13011]
>>
>>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>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>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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