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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 | | 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 | | OpenACC - API describing a collection of compiler directives to accelerate application. | | 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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About OpenStandards.net
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OpenStandards.net is a not-for-profit organization created to connect people to open
standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth, integrating the various
resources within the IT industry committed to increasing the synergy of international
IT collaboration.
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Openness should be defined by how limitless our abilities are to improve
and grow rather than how closed we can be. Growth without boundaries
is the premise upon which OpenStandards.net seeks to fill countless gaps
while helping to shed light on a better future for IT.
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OpenStandards.net does not seek to reinvent the wheel, or replace
any of the entities currently committed to open standards. Rather,
it seeks to bind them and their stakeholders together, creating
synergy and increasing the value of their efforts. The truth is,
everyone with an interest in open standards will benefit, not the
least of which are organizations that have been and continue to
work hard for the cause. There are more than enough unfulfilled
needs for OpenStandards.net to fill, including
the need to increase awareness of the many efforts other organizations
are working hard to achieve.
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Objectives
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The objectives listed here provide clear direction for
putting our principles into action.
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Portal for Standards
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OpenStandards.net should be the place people can go to locate
information on open standards. It will be a place to
learn and connect interested parties with people and organizations
covering their interests.
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Hub for Current Standards Setting Organizations
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Besides being a place to centralize connections to open standards
setting bodies, OpenStandards.net will excel further, looking for
opportunities to foster synergistic cooperation between the
various bodies and its members. By reducing duplication
while producing the benefits of cooperation, OpenStandard.net
proposes to strengthen the open standards community while
accelerating development as well as increasing acceptance of new standards.
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The site will seek to aggregate news on open standards, making it a place
to routinely keep up-to-date on the latest trends and activities in the
open standards community.
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Everyone with an interest in open standards will have a stake in
OpenStandards.net. Beneficiaries range from members of current open
standards setting bodies to developers utilizing the standards, hardware
manufacturers and organizations weighing their options, and even those
fostering proprietary standards, to either assess the impact or consider
relinquishing their hold on certain standards, as well as learn how they
can best benefit from the ROI that open standards brings.
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Principles
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Principles are the foundation of any successful net effort.
Without such, one is an obstacle. These principles are
fundamental for true open standards, and should be the cornerstone of
our efforts as the net's citizens.
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Open Visibility
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Standards created openly for all to see are more likely to be adopted and benefit
the users. Where information on standards setting is
currently open, attempts should be made to make this information easier to understand
and access. Where activities occur behind closed doors, the effort to open
those doors must be adamantly pursued.
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Open Participation
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One measure of the openness of standards is the degree to which those impacted
by the results have access to the creation process.
Public view of the process is only one step in the right direction. Organizations
should open participation so the diversity of the contributors reflects
the true recipients of the benefits. Increasing the ability for all
interested parties to be represented is essential to prosperous results.
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Open Access to Standards
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Specifications and other documentation defining standards should be openly
available for everyone. Those wishing to
use an open standard should be able to view the information and
documentation necessary
to create an implementation, as well as access to any technology and
legal rights necessary to use, deploy or distribute their
implementation.
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Common Benefit
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OpenStandards.net is committed to the interests of all the stakeholders
of open standards.
Individual privacy, consumer costs and benefits, and other considerations
that put the people in proper perspective shall guide our efforts. Open standards is
ultimately about creating a better world for everyone.
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Increased Unity and Sharing, Decreased Duplication
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Competition can breed innovation. Yet, in a world where digital information can
be replicated across the globe rapidly, the benefits to competitive duplication
can pale quickly in contrast to the benefits of unity and collaboration.
Open standards is a means to increase unity and sharing to decrease duplication.
With insatiable demand for improvement, competitive
innovation will always have a place, and become more productive as it is
able to leverage a global infrastructure built on unity and openness.
The greater the optimization and accessibility of the infrastructure built
through open standards, the greater the demand for innovation leveraging it.
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