[odf-discuss] Follow up on Belgium and ODF?

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 3/13/07, Lars D. Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
> We have some links on the Precidents page regarding Belgium considering
> OpenDocument:
>
>         http://opendocumentfellowship.org/government/precedent#S5.3.
>
> Does anyone know of a more recent set of documents recording the actual
> decision?

The most recent document concerning this matter that was published on the
belgium.be portal site is:

 http://www.belgium.be/eportal/application?pageid=contentPage&docId=44174

(that is reached through:
     www.fedict.be
--> choose your language (I believe only the "NL" and "FR" languages
are really populated)
--> downloads (I choose "NL" Dutch)
--> under the "White Papers" heading
--> Open Standaarden II
--> Title
     "Richtlijnen voor het gebruik van Open Standaarden voor de uitwisseling
      van [editeerbare] kantoordocumenten")

It is the section "4. Richtlijnen" and particularly 4.1 , 4.2 , 4.3
that define the policy:

4.1. "...read functionality 12 months after the decision of Sept 2006
..." [Sept 2007]
4.2. "...exchange (read + write) functionality 24 months aftter the
decision ..." [Sept 2008]
4.3. "...ODF is chosen as standard on 1 Sept 2006, _if_ in an impact study,
           to be delivered by March 2007 (for 4.1) and March 2008 (for
4.2) it is
           demonstrated that ODF (read and read/write) functionality
is guaranteed in
           an MS Office environment, with preservation of the required
meta-data and
           functionality"


That document is the guideline by which I am working.

Peter