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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Re: Re: draft proposal 0.3 - Establishing the conformance landscape
2008/7/30 <david_marston@us.ibm.com>: > That's part of it. The stakeholder I had in mind is a government body > that needs to issue "official government documents" that are part of > the permanent public record. If these documents are computer files, > they need to outlast the disk or server on which they were first > created. The government does not want to force its citizens to buy > (or even download for "free" but contingent on signing a contract) > a particular kind of single-source software to read its documents. > > They want to use a class (C) or (B) tool today to produce a class (D) > document that will be readable by the class (A) tool of 2083. That > may be a lot to ask, but I think that stakeholder position needs to > be represented at this TC. That *should* be any organization with common sense, IBM included! The value of a company lies in its information. Often tied up in a secret format (commercial office app for instance). Moving that to XML opens up the window just a tad. Not many orgs have admitted that as yet though. And my other questions David? -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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