{"id":20,"date":"2006-06-20T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corneliadavis.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-06-20T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T21:28:51","slug":"beyond-a-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/beyond-a-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond a standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier I posted<\/a> on the existence of a blog that covers industry standards. I came to that site because I was trying to get a grasp of what was going on with ODF, my interest being more in the dynamics around the standard than in the standard itself. It’s been getting a lot of buzz, something we can thank the State of Massachusetts<\/a> for. If it wasn’t for the buzz, ODF would arguably sit alongside many other very useful, yet completely unused standards – a good piece of technology but little else. I’m not saying that without the State of Mass noise that ODF would be inconsequential, what I’m saying is that standards need a lot of support around them to make them successful.In March of this year, two different organizations were announced to provide support around the ODF standard. The ODF Alliance<\/a>, hosted by the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA)<\/a> is said to be about educating government entities on the benefits of ODF. A week after the announcement of the ODF Alliance, OASIS<\/a> announced the formation of the ODF Adoption Committee<\/a> which is chartered with “increas[ing] the demand for and availability of ODF conforming products.” Okay, so the support organizations appear to be competing<\/a>, although I’d rather see it as ODF having more support.Conclusion: Any valuable standard can benefit greatly from the support of organizations that are there to promote, evangelize and provide guidance on the use of the standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier I posted on the existence of a blog that covers industry standards. I came to that site because I was trying to get a grasp of what was going on with ODF, my interest being more in the dynamics around the standard than in the standard itself. It’s been getting a lot of buzz, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}