[odf-discuss] Duty of governments to specify OpenDocument as a procurement standard

[Daniel Carrera]

On Fri, 2006-10-11 at 13:06 -0800, marbux wrote:
> There has been a fair amount of public speculation that OpenDocument
> is not yet mandatory for government software procurement because it is
> not yet final.

In which way is it not final? The 1.0 spec was finalized months ago.
Sure, there is work on the 1.1 spec, but there will always be work on
the next version. Would you argue that HTML is not final because the W3C
is working on a new version?

> Since the current status of ISO adoption is at the 60% stage, approved
> but for clean-up details, it might be fairly argued that they
> specification of ODF in government tenders is in fact now mandatory
> unless to do so would pose "fundamental" technological problems.

Could you explain this 60% bit?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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