[odf-discuss] Recommended reading: Rick Jelliffe on converging editable electronic document packaging conventions

[marbux]

<http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01/packaging-formats-of-famous-ap.html>.

E.g.,

"I think there is good scope for useful convergence of the various
standards. The key would be to piggybacking it on some mutually
attractive feature, such as better support for multi-document packages
and websites. I have mentioned this aspect before, when talking about
whether a file can be ODF and OOXML and a website at the same time.
Can it be ODF and XPS and MARS at the same time?

"My expectation for convergence would be that there would be a level
of convergence where everyone agrees on ZIP (deflate),
self-identification of document type, multuple document support,
/mimetype, W3C DSIG, Dublin Core metadata and IS29500 OPC's URL scheme
for identifying parts, but then an advanced layer with more
platform-dependent features on things like references, relationships,
RDF and rights where one vendor's meat may be another's
poison--encryption & DRM may certainly be contentious. (The OEBPS
ssytem already has such a split model, with the OPF layer sitting on
top of OCF to provide references, if my brief reading is correct.) The
goal should including making sure the same archive can support a
plurality of these different platforms without one locking out the
other. (Which brings up consistency-guarantee issues, of course.)"

Best regards,

Paul

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Universal Interoperability Council
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