Open Standards and standards organizations
This report - from January 2008 - examines 10 "open" standard s organizations and evaluates how "open" they are. It uses a methodology that maps directly into Krechmer's open standards requirements. The organizations reviewed are: CEN (European Committee for Standardization) Ecma (European association for standardizing information and communication systems ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) ISO (International Organization for Standardization) ITU (International Telecommunication Union) NIST (National Institute of Technology and Standards) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) OMG (Object Management Group) W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Evaluation of Ten Standard Setting Orgizanizations with Regard to Open Standards Abstract: On 2 June 2006, the Danish parliament (the Folketing) unanimously adopted Parliamentary Resolution B103 on the use of open standard...