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Subject: OpenDocument Workshop promotion: Updegrove


Andy Updegrove gave us some great exposure for our OpenDocument Workshop next
month.

Please continue to think about ways we can promote this event. 

Thanks,
Carol

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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:49 PM
To: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
Subject: The Role of Government in ICT Standardization

CONSORTIUM STANDARDS BULLETIN 
A Journal of News, Ideas and Analysis 
February 2007 

 

EDITORS NOTE:	 THE  COMPLEX  RELATIONSHIP  OF  GOVERNMENT  WITH  STANDARDS

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#editorsnote	 
 	  	 
EDITORIAL:	 ICT,  ACCESSIBILITY  AND  SELF-REGULATION	 
Today, a building in the United States with public access must by law be
accessible to those with disabilities - but a computer program does not, even
if the inability to use it might be a bar to employment. As modern society
becomes ever more dependent on information and communications technology, both
the private sector as well as the public sector needs to become more mindful of
accessibility needs and other issues that can be favorably addressed through
standards. 
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#editorial
 	  	 
FEATURE ARTICLE:	 THE  ROLE  OF  GOVERNMENT  IN  ICT  STANDARDIZATION

Governments interact with standards as developers (when they draft laws),
adopters (when they reference standards in regulations), influencers (when they
join SSOs), and as end-users. To date, government involvement with ICT
standards has been light. But as more and more essential services continue to
redeploy across the Internet, the workplace becomes ever more IT dependent, and
paper public records give way to exclusively digitized data, its time for that
role to be re-evaluated.   
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#feature
 	  	 
UPDATE:	 FTC CAPS RAMBUS ROYALTIES 	
Last August, the Commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission voted
unanimously to find semiconductor designer Rambus, Inc. guilty of abusing the
standards system, but deferred a penalty verdict pending further testimony and
deliberations.  In February they issued their verdict, and capped the royalties
that Rambus could earn to license its SDRAM patents to implement the JEDEC
standard at issue.   It could have been worse for Rambus - and almost was, with
two out of five Commissioners filing an opinion advocating a harsher penalty. 
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#update
 	  	 
STANDARDS BLOG:	 THE  FORWARD  MARCH  OF  OPEN  FORMATS  IN  STATE  LEGISLATION

Legislators in three states (thus far) this year have introduced coordinated
bills uniformly addressing a key standards-related policy issue: how can
governments best protect public records? 
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#blog
 	  	 
CONSIDER THIS:	 LANGUAGE  CODES  AND  A  "PHILOSOPHY  OF  THREE-PART  SERVICE"

What could be more boring than a standard listing arbitrarily assigned
three-letter codes identifying languages? You might be surprised. 
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#considerthis
 	 
FEATURED MEETING: 	OPENDOCUMENT  WORKSHOP:  ADOPTION,  ACCESSIBILITY,
PROGRAMMABILITY  AND  THE  FUTURE	 
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/feb07.php#meeting	 
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