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

[marbux]

On 11/10/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> 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?

No. But I note that the W3C is not the ISO.

>
> > 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?
>

Sorry, that was a careless error on my part. It's "stage" 60, not 60
%. See <http://www.iso.org/iso/en/widepages/stagetable.html#60>.

My understanding is that it doesn't hit the 90.93 final confirmation
stage until the minor tweaks that were requested by the ISO TC are
incorporated and approved. But I am far from an expert on the workings
of the ISO.

Sorry for the error.

Best,

Marbux