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Subject: RE: [opendocument-users] Open Government Dialogue on Document Formats
Wow, that was issued in 1998. So maybe what is needed is for A-119 to be honored pro-actively? The OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) TC has a member from the US Department of Defense. I am not aware of any ODF TC or ODF Adoption TC member that is participating from a Federal agency. I do think that the definition of voluntary consensus standards and voluntary consensus standard organizations should be sufficient for what we lately refer to as open standards and open formats, especially when specifications accompanied by non-assert agreements with regard to any applicable patents. - Dennis PS: I would think that the Federal CIO and/or the CIO Council could take a role here. Dennis E. Hamilton ------------------ NuovoDoc: Design for Document System Interoperability mailto:Dennis.Hamilton@acm.org | gsm:+1-206.779.9430 http://NuovoDoc.com http://ODMA.info/dev/ http://nfoWorks.org -----Original Message----- From: Bryce L Nordgren [mailto:bnordgren@fs.fed.us] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200906/msg00001.html Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 16:13 To: dennis.hamilton@acm.org Cc: 'Patrick Gannon'; opendocument-users@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [opendocument-users] Open Government Dialogue on Document Formats See OMB circular A-119. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a119/a119.html Although this refers to use in "procurement and regulatory" activities, certain geospatial agencies use this directive to justify participation in ISO TC/211 for the development of the ISO 19100 series of voluntary consensus standards, and subsequently advocating the adoption thereof. The geospatial app domain is highly analgous to the office app domain, in that there is only one major commercial player and information is beginning to transition from proprietary storage/transaction formats to open ones. Now if only we had a gov't agency for office documents... :) Bryce [ ... ]
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