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| Standards Bodies and Consortia | | AIAG - Develops standards for the automotive industry | | ANSI - American National Standards Institute | | ASTM - an international voluntary standards organization that develops and produces technical standards for | | CableLabs - pursues new cable telecommunications technologies and their integration | | DCML - provides a standard model to describe one or more data center environments | | DMTF - Develops standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environment | | ECMA - International European association for standardizing information and communication systems | | ETSI - produces European telecommunications standards | | FreeStandards.org - Accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through standards. | | ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | | IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission | | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc | | IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force | | ISO - International Organization for Standardization | | ITU - International Telecommunications Union | | JCP - Java Community Process | | JXTA - Combination P2P open standards with Java open source implementation. | | LibertyAlliance - Liberty Alliance Project | | OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems | | ODMG - Object Data Management Group | | OGC - international consortium for geospatial and location based services standards | | OMA - Creates open standards and specifications for interoperable mobile services. | | OMG - Object Management Group | | OpenGroup - an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium | | OSGi - Open Services Gateway Initiative | | RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards | | RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues. | | TCG - Industry standards group to help create specs for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security te | | UDDI.org - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration | | VoiceXML - an industry organization formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML | | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | | WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization |
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| July 2008 | Dispute about Europe-wide definition of open standards
A dispute has been sparked in Brussels about the definition of open standards to promote the interoperability between eGovernment services.
- heise online, July 7, 2008 | Adobe's PDF Format Now An International Standard
The International Organization for Standardization will assume responsibility for publishing specs for the current version, and for updating and developing future versions.
- InformationWeek, July 3, 2008 | | June 2008 | Confronting the future of Web standards
As technology consumers, we accept that the Web is built on open standards. We are told that an entire standards body, the W3C, exists to maintain them. Dig a little further, however, and we find that the history and the issues behind the standards are far more complex than they appear to be.
- InfoWorld, June 12, 2008 | EC pledges to promote open standards
The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of European governments to any one technology.
- ZD Net, June 11, 2008 | E.U. Snubs Microsoft on Office Systems
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes of the European Union delivered an unusually blunt snub to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards.
- nytimes.com, June 11, 2008 | | May 2008 | South Africa to appeal Open XML's ratification as a standard
Letters have been sent to both the International Standards Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission saying the standardization process was flawed.
- betanews.com, May 29, 2008 | Google Gears Turns One: Future is in Open Standard
Google Gears, the offline web application API it debuted last year at its developer conference, is turning one this week, and to celebrate, Google will be dropping the company name from Gears.
- ReadWriteWeb, May 28, 2008 | Microsoft's standards push hit with appeal
An angry appeal from a South African organization has threatened to delay final certification of Microsoft Corp.'s controversial file format technology as an international standard.
- marketwatch.com, May 28, 2008 | FFII Calls for Open Standards Adoption in E-government
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) endorsed two petitions which call for the use of free and open standards in e-government to ensure all citizens' rights to fair and equal interaction with political institutions.
- agPnews, May 27, 2008 | Microsoft's ODF support points to Open XML challenges
Microsoft Corp.'s plan to add ODF support to its Office applications suite next year reflects continued challenges for the software vendor's own Office Open XML file format, as the industry moves ahead with adopting ODF and sorts out Open XML's troubles.
- computerworld.com, May 23, 2008 |
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