[odf-discuss] Definition of International Standards

[Søren Roug]

This might help you.

The European Commission (EC) has defined the term "open standards" as part of the final version 1.0 of the European Interoperability Framework. 

 * The standard is adopted and will be maintained by a not-for-profit organisation, and its ongoing development occurs on the basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all interested parties (consensus or majority decision etc.). 
 * The standard has been published and the standard specification document is available either freely or at a nominal charge. It must be permissible to all to copy, distribute and use it for no fee or at a nominal fee. 
 * The intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly present - of (parts of) the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis. 
 * There are no constraints on the re-use of the standard.  

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=19529

 However, it talks about open standards - not international standards, and I don't know if the scope of the definition reaches beyond the document itself.

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|| Subject: [odf-discuss] Definition of International Standards
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|| Is there an EU or EC document with a short and sweet 
|| definition of an 
|| International Standard?
|| 
|| Obviously ISO/IEC standards would qualify, but what about 
|| the IETF and the 
|| W3C?
|| 
|| -Lars
|| Lars Noodén
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