ODF and differences of opinion

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Not really

It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.

Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.

According to them, their attempts to promote those virtues within the OASIS committee have been blocked by the chair of the committee, who has kept their proposals off of the agenda. I'll leave aside the tin-foil-hat explanations.

Speaking as a standards maven: regardless of DIS-29500, IS-26300, or the W3C specs, a useful standard must be verifiably implementable by more than one party. It also must enable end-users to distinguish between conforming and non-conforming applications, where conforming applications have a reasonable assurance of being interoperable. Anything else is at best a waste of time.

Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 11/02/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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