Re: Free and open standards [was Re: Bag of Data Anti-pattern]

Paid-for standards are also inaccessible to open source projects. IEEE is
out of touch.

Adrian

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 01/05/2018 12:48 PM, David Booth wrote:
> > For these reasons, I think it is essential that we (continue to) push
> > for free and open interoperability standards.  Society as a whole
> > pays a heavy price for the lack of interoperability that results from
> > closed standards.
>
> All good points, and I don't think anyone on the list would disagree.
>
> I'm merely pointing to those specs as data points that should influence
> our thinking (not the specs themselves, but how the technology is
> designed and implemented) in the same way that all open standards take
> in signals from open, research, and proprietary systems.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The State of W3C Web Payments in 2017
> http://manu.sporny.org/2017/w3c-web-payments/
>
>


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