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Subject: Re: [office-comment] ODF still fails to specify scripting properly (ODF 1.2 CD01)
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:18 PM, <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote: > marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote on 03/01/2009 03:31:47 PM: > > I think we are close to this already. The current draft says that > Conformant ODF Producers "...may produce conforming OpenDocument extended > documents, but it shall have a mode of operation where all OpenDocument > documents that are created are conforming > OpenDocument documents." I suggest rewrite to make clear that the user shall be given the option to set ODF Strict as the default file save format. As I recall, what I propose here is a requirement in the Massachusetts ITD ETRM and is also consistent with the IDABC Open Document Exchange Formats 2007 Workshop identified requirements of "No incomplete implementations, no proprietary extensions[.]" <http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=27956>. Moreover, the more non-strict documents out there the bigger the interoperability mess grows. Those are concrete market requirements. As to market requirements, the World Trade Organization Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the oversight committee for the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade has said: "The following principles and procedures should be observed, when international standards, guides and recommendations (as mentioned under Articles 2, 5 and Annex 3 of the TBT Agreement for the preparation of mandatory technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures and voluntary standards) are elaborated, to ensure transparency, openness, impartiality and consensus, effectiveness and relevance, coherence, and to address the concerns of developing countries. ... "10. In order to serve the interests of the WTO membership in facilitating international trade and preventing unnecessary trade barriers, international standards need to be relevant and to effectively respond to regulatory and *market needs,* as well as scientific and technological developments in various countries. They should not distort the global market, have adverse effects on fair competition, or stifle innovation and technological development. ... "11. Accordingly, it is important that international standardizing bodies: "Take account of relevant regulatory or "market needs," as feasible and appropriate, as well as scientific and technological developments in the elaboration of standards ..." World Trade Organization Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, Decisions and Recommendations Adopted by the Committee Since 1 January 1995 (May 23, 2002), pg. 28, http://docsonline.wto.org/imrd/directdoc.asp?DDFDocuments/t/G/TBT/1R8.doc. Best regards, Paul E. Merrell, J.D. -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org>
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