Comments on: Open Standards: Do Open Standards’ implementations meet their specifications? http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/04/open-standards-do-open-standards-implementations-meet-their-specifications/ Where Free Software meets Businessequally critical of proprietary and open source myths,advocating software choice beyondmarketing and romanticism Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/04/open-standards-do-open-standards-implementations-meet-their-specifications/#comment-445594 Roberto Galoppini Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:13:23 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/04/open-standards-do-open-standards-implementations-meet-their-specifications/#comment-445594 Hi Ken, I am glad to disseminate your message on open standards, is really important to let people know that standardization is a process, not a product. I always <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/07/open-standards-standards-organizations-how-open-are-them-an-evaluation-methodology/" rel="nofollow">mention "open interface"</a> in <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/05/10/open-standards-conference-bob-sutor-at-the-ibm-conference-on-open-standards/" rel="nofollow">my speeches</a>, explaining the importance of it. I also mention that "open interface" should go along with "open change", in order to avoid <a href="http://perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html" rel="nofollow">predatory practices</a>. I will try to cover these topics more extensively in the next future, thanks for your hint! Hi Ken,

I am glad to disseminate your message on open standards, is really important to let people know that standardization is a process, not a product.

I always mention “open interface” in my speeches, explaining the importance of it. I also mention that “open interface” should go along with “open change”, in order to avoid predatory practices. I will try to cover these topics more extensively in the next future, thanks for your hint!

]]> By: Ken Krechmer http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/04/open-standards-do-open-standards-implementations-meet-their-specifications/#comment-444879 Ken Krechmer Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:25:46 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/04/open-standards-do-open-standards-implementations-meet-their-specifications/#comment-444879 Thank you for your very kind comments on my work. I think your suggestions about the need for specific aspects of openness are excellent. One aspect you did not mention, I think should be emphasized - open interface. This is the most difficult aspect to understand, but perhaps the most useful today as it offers a means to support both public and proprietary features in a standard. This provides a way around most of the intellectual property issues that bedevil standardization today. The paper The Entrepreneur and Standards http://www.csrstds.com/IECChallenge2006.pdf given an introduction to this aspect and the paper The Fundamental Nature of Standards (http://www.csrstds.com/fundtec.html) under etiquettes gives a more technical description. Thank you for your very kind comments on my work. I think your suggestions about the need for specific aspects of openness are excellent. One aspect you did not mention, I think should be emphasized - open interface. This is the most difficult aspect to understand, but perhaps the most useful today as it offers a means to support both public and proprietary features in a standard. This provides a way around most of the intellectual property issues that bedevil standardization today. The paper The Entrepreneur and Standards http://www.csrstds.com/IECChallenge2006.pdf given an introduction to this aspect and the paper The Fundamental Nature of Standards (http://www.csrstds.com/fundtec.html) under etiquettes gives a more technical description.

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