Re: Open Letter to the EC about Open Standards and Interoperability

FYI, as part of this activity, there was a fairly intensive survey activity earlier this year:

FUTURE ICT STANDARDISATION POLICY: IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF POLICY OPTIONS

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QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE SURVEY OF ICT STANDARDISATION CONSORTIA AND FORA


The OGC responded to this survey in great detail.

I suspect other SDOs did also.

Regards

Carl Reed
CTO
OGC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paola Di Maio 
  To: public-xg-eiif 
  Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:11 AM
  Subject: Fwd: Open Letter to the EC about Open Standards and Interoperability


  Wonder if European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is semantically related to EIIF?


  fyi, see below
  Please disseminate!

  PDM


  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
  From: Stefane Fermigier <sf@nuxeo.com>
  Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:59 PM
  Subject: Re: Open Letter to the EC about Open Standards and Interoperability
  To: paoladimaio10@googlemail.com



  Yes, actually it was in the mail body but I've realised it's mangled on gmail.


  Here is the text that was supposed to appear, including the link:


  http://www.gt-logiciel-libre.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/GTLL_to_EC_on_IDABC.pdf


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  Hi,


  our Open Source Software Thematic Group became deeply concerned two weeks ago
  after we learned that the European Commission was preparing a new version
  of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) with definitions of 
  interoperability, open standards and maybe even open source completely 
  void of any substance, allowing any proprietary software vendor to claim
  being compatible with the new guidelines.


  This concern was, to our knowledge, first publicised by Glyn Moody in his blog:


  http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2620&blogid=14


  To react and try to protect the useful and actionable definitions contained
  in EIF v1, we've just written an open letter to Commissioner Kallas and Mr 
  Garcia Moran:


  http://www.gt-logiciel-libre.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/GTLL_to_EC_on_IDABC.pdf


  Other useful references about this subject include:


  - http://action.ffii.org/eif from our friends as FFII
  - http://www.ow2.org/view/Events/OpenLetterIEF from our friends at OW2


  Our original announcement (in french) is here:
  http://www.gt-logiciel-libre.org/2009/11/lettre-ouverte-eif-v2/


  Regards,


    S. Fermigier, Chairman
    System@tic Free / Open Source Software Thematic Group, aka GTLL


  --


    S.


  On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:


    Dou have a URL? It would be easier to disseminate as link :-)



    On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Stefane Fermigier <sf@nuxeo.com> wrote:


      On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:


        Thanks

        actually I am still working on the news business marginally, so if you think this info should be disseminated, I ll
        do so,


      Please do so if you can. Thanks.

       S.


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