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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 | | FIX - messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages | | 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 | | NHIN - a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services that enables the secure exchange of health information over the internet | | 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 - dynamic module system for Java | | RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards | | RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues. | | SunSpec - defines open data standards for the renewable energy and photovoltaic (PV) industries | | 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 | | workforce-xml - standardization of xml integration of devices/apps for the workforce | | WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization |
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| March 2010 | Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal.
- slashdot.org, March 9, 2010 | Industry coalition plans interoperability program
The Initiative for Open Authentication, an industry coalition promoting the use of open standards for interoperable strong authentication, used its annual meeting at this week’s RSA Security Conference to discuss plans for an interoperability certification program. The group, usually called OATH, considers interoperability one of its key focuses, said Don Malloy, the institute's marketing chief and director of business development for Nagra ID Security SA.
- GCN, March 4, 2010 | A Look at Service Component Architecture (SCA)
The vision for the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification, a notion that originated with IBM and BEA Systems, was of a programming standard for service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to Michael Rowley, who has been involved with the spec almost since its inception.
- TechTarget, March 1, 2010 | | February 2010 | UK Government Gives Green Light To Use Of Firefox Across Public Sector
In the light of the recent phishing attack that compromised Twitter accounts of several prominent politicians, the UK government has announced that all its departments will have the freedom to opt for other web browsers as there is no rule about only using the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.
- ITProPortal, February 27, 2010 | Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch
Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground quite rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.
- ZD Net, February 22, 2010 | Open standards win again: Google drops Gears for HTML5
Google announced this weekend that it’s going to be ending support for Google Gears, its product for allowing offline access to applications like Gmail and Google Docs.
- VentureBeat, February 22, 2010 | Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA) For DC Power Expands Membership to 13 Companies with FDK Corp
The Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA), a global association dedicated to bringing compatibility and standardization to the DC-DC board mounted power conversion market, today added FDK Corporation to its membership roster.
- Market Watch, February 9, 2010 | Smart Grid cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified
The second draft of the Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements released last week provides more detail about the Herculean task of securing the nation’s modernized electrical infrastructure.
- smartplanet.com, February 8, 2010 | Denmark adopts ODF and PDF/A
Central government bodies in Denmark will have to use open document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), from 2011, the Danish parliament has ruled.
- ZDNet Asia, February 3, 2010 | Industry calls for smart card security standard
The solution will build on an open standard already implemented by the four partner companies, and that will eventually be governed by an independent body.
- EE Times India, February 1, 2010 | | January 2010 | Oracle changes the IT strategy landscape
The $4.3 billion of research and development budgeted for fiscal year 2011 will allow Oracle to safeguard and reinvigorate Sun products and to make this hardware the “gold standard” for running Oracle applications. The announcement also included a commitment to continue its open standards efforts, specifically mentioning Java and MySQL; to this end, Oracle has expanded its upcoming Java developer’s conference to locations in Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
- TechRepublic, January 29, 2010 | Danish Parliament Sets Rules for Open Document Formats
The Danish Parliament has decided on a set of rules to which open document formats must adhere if they are to be used by state authorities after April 1, 2011, Denmark's Liberal Party said on Friday.
- PC World, January 29, 2010 | Apple becomes more closed with each new device...
OPINION: "Since the introduction of the iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad, Apple is becoming less and less open, it using fewer standard components and chips, and far fewer Internet technologies common to Mac/PC desktop and laptop systems."
- ZD Net, January 28, 2010 | Major Smart Card Market Players Join Forces to Advance Open and Secure Public Transport Smart Card Applications
Transport Ticketing 2010 Conference & Expo, London - January 26, 2010 - Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) and Oberthur Technologies S.A., and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and INSIDE Contactless S.A. announced they have launched an industry initiative to provide a new security solution for next-generation smart card-based public transport applications.
- MoreRFID, January 27, 2010 | Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
“The modifications made to the suggestions given by an expert committee recommendations would make the policy very weak and not favour open standards,” says Dr G Nagarajan, chairman of the Free Software Foundation of India, which advocates that the software should be free and open for all. The draft is also not clear on whether it will also impact existing e-governance projects or only new tenders.
- The Economic Times, January 19, 2010 | Twitter Punches Back at Facebook Connect
Twitter is using an open, standards based approach with OAuth for authentication and data sharing, while Facebook uses proprietary protocols for Facebook Connec
- PAETEC, January 18, 2010 | Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010
Think of the words "standards war," and unless you're a standards wonk like m...oh, never mind...you're likely to think of the battle between the Betamax and VHS video tape formats. That's because videos are consumer products that just about everyone uses, and therefore the bloodshed in that standards war was not only shed in public view, but the some of the blood that was shed was shed by the public (i.e., those that bought video players supporting Betamax, the losing, but arguably superior, format). Fast forward (pun intended) to the present, and the trademarks "HD DVD and "Blu-ray" may ring a bell - and that's no coincidence.
- consortiuminfo.org, January 11, 2010 |
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