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| | Open standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Some people restrict their use of the term "open" to royalty-free technologies, while others do not; and some people restrict their use of the term "standard" to technologies approved by formalized committees that are open to participation by all interested parties and operate on a consensus basis, while others do not. | | | The danish government has tried to make a definition of open standards, which also is used in pan european software development projects. | | | The requirement to pay some small amount per user, is often an insurmountable problem for free software or open source implementations which can be redistributed by anyone. |
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| | OpenDocument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | OpenDocument is the only standard for editable office documents that has been vetted by an independent recognized standards body, has been implemented by multiple vendors, and can be implemented by any supplier (including proprietary software vendors as well as developers using open source software licenses such as the GNU LGPL or GNU GPL). | | | Organizations and individuals that store their data in an open format such as OpenDocument avoid being locked in to a single software vendor, leaving them free to switch software if their current vendor goes out of business, raises its prices, changes its software, or changes its licensing terms to something less favorable. | | | The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats including the popular but undocumented DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office, as well as Microsoft Office Open XML format (this latter format has various licensing requirements that prevent some competitors from using it). |
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| | The Meaning of Open Standards |
| | Often open source development makes use of open standards for operating systems or software development tools, but the purpose of open source is to support continuous software improvement [1] while the purpose of open standards is to support common agreements that enable communications available to all. | | | Open source is used to describe an open process of software development. | | | Standards creators do not require Open Change rights as they are always involved in all the documents. |
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http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html
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| | Informal Comments on Open Formats - Executive Office for Administration and Finance |
| | We have been in a conversation with Microsoft for several months with regard to the patent that they have on, and the license surrounding their use of, XML to define the schema of DOC files in Microsoft Office 2003. | | | That would potentially include (again, we need to wait for the final designation of this by Microsoft) Word Processing ML, which is the wrapper around DOC files, Spreadsheet ML, which is the wrapper around XLS files, and the form template schemas. | | | As always, we look forward to your feedback; one of the best assets that we have is the collective brainpower of the software industry in Massachusetts. |
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http://www.mass.gov/eoaf/open_formats_comments.html
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| | Dawson & Stenerson Standards Track [Page 6] RFC 2445 iCalendar November 1998 The format for the iCalendar object is based on the syntax of the [RFC 2425] content type. | | | Dawson & Stenerson Standards Track [Page 11] RFC 2445 iCalendar November 1998 The file extension of "ifb" is to be used to designate a file containing free or busy time information consistent with this MIME content type. | | | Dawson & Stenerson Standards Track [Page 13] RFC 2445 iCalendar November 1998 The content information associated with an iCalendar object is formatted using a syntax similar to that defined by [RFC 2425]. |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt
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| | Standards Track [Page 40] RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format November 1998 along with other information that implementing software uses for trust information. | | | Standards Track [Page 11] RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format November 1998 PGP 2.X always used IDEA with Simple string-to-key conversion when encrypting a message with a symmetric algorithm. | | | Standards Track [Page 29] RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format November 1998 0x10 - The private component of this key may have been split by a secret-sharing mechanism. |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt
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| | The Base Specifications Issue 6 |
| | General terms, concepts, and interfaces common to all volumes of this standard, including utility conventions and C-language header definitions, are included in the Base Definitions volume (XBD). | | | This standard has been jointly developed by the IEEE and The Open Group. | | | Extended rationale that did not fit well into the rest of the document structure, containing historical information concerning the contents of this standard and why features were included or discarded by the standard developers, is included in the |
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http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/mindex.html
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| | Building a School Web Site - Open Standards |
| | Languages and standards are very similar; they are the means by which people and computers communicate: people via language and computers via standards. | | | There are thousands of people in the computer industry involved in setting standards. | | | The Consortium is a neutral open forum where companies and organizations to whom the future of the Web is important come to discuss and to agree on new common computer protocols." |
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http://www.wigglebits.com/standards.html
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| | Open Standards: Principles and Practice |
| | The best practice is for software reference platforms to be licensed in a way that is compatible with all forms of software licensing, both Free Software (Open Source) and proprietary. | | | The user is forced to switch to the dominant vendor's implementation in order to be compatible with the majority of users. | | | Any software project should be able to afford a copy without undue hardship. |
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http://perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html
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| | OpenRAW - Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation |
| | This site was created to give photographers and everybody interested in an open documentation of proprietary RAW formats a place to voice their opinion and to encourage camera makers to openly document their proprietary RAW formats. | | | If Adobe DNG is so open and publicly... | | | We want camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats — past, present, and future. |
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| | The OASIS Standard for Office Documents: How All Users and Developers Can Benefit |
| | All the research done for this article confirmed one of my first impressions: so far, the free software/open-source software approach to guarantee information interchange has been to develop cross-platform applications, which are difficult to maintain and optimize for each target environment. | | | In general, existing programs and their developers may have to compromise between the standard and their current concept of the perfect structure of the perfect document. | | | Absolutely complete compatibility is possible only with software designed from scratch or with software that has been modified thoroughly to achieve it. |
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7159/print
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| | Open-standard bearers close ranks Tech News on ZDNet |
| | They unambiguously lay out what it is to be open, what it means for software and standards that claim that title and how they interact with the non-open world. | | | Proponents of open standards and open software know this all too well. | | | True, Bill is the son of a lawyer, yet although he got an early introduction to the benefits of open development--"The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5379107.html
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| | Versions |
| | Archiving a precise version of the standard for later reference can be done by archiving a copy of the major reference, and either paper or electronic copies of the contributory files. | | | Where the important information is simply the overall architecture and semantics of the Unicode Standard, the version can be omitted entirely, as in example (4). | | | Because Unicode is a universal encoding, any abstract character that ever could be encoded is potentially a member of the actual set to be encoded, whether we currently know of that character or not. |
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| | Cover Pages: OpenOffice.org XML File Format |
| | For the first time, a commercial grade, full-featured office suite will be opened up to the innovative input of the global developer community." [On the XML File Format:] We adopted XML to replace the old binary file format and become the OpenOffice.org suite's new native file format. | | | Both standards are widely used by Web publishers and usually require the use of special authoring software... | | | The Open Office software suite (properly referred to as Openoffice.org or OOo) is one of the better-known applications of the open source movement. |
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http://xml.coverpages.org/starOfficeXML.html
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| | Jabber: Open Instant Messaging and a Whole Lot More, Powered by XMPP |
| | The jabber.org server has been upgraded to use the open-source ejabberd software. | | | The Jabber Software Foundation will hold an XMPP interoperability testing event on July 24-25, 2006, at the Open Source Development Lab in Portland, Oregon, USA. | | | The Wildfire project has released version 2.5.0 of its Jabber/XMPP server, which boasts full compliance with the XMPP RFCs. |
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| | Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) |
| | The power of open software and data is the ability to quickly and easily exchange, share, and distribute information to anyone and in any format. | | | In a recent blog post, Kurt Cagle, the SVG Open 2006 Chairman, writes that the SVG Open 2006 website is out in the open. | | | The Amanith Framework is a cross-platform (Linux, Win32, MacOS X, FreeBSD and IRIX) open source C++ library for vector graphics. |
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| | Open Firmware Home Page (OpenFirmware.ORG) |
| | Firmware is typically stored in read-only memory (ROM) and executed immediately after a computer is turned on. | | | Apple Computers, Inc. has some Open Firmware related documents at their Developer Website for some of their PowerPC Macintoshes | | | NetBSD/ofppc: experimental NetBSD for Open Firmware PowerPC machines |
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| | The RS232 Standard |
| | At that time, data communications was thought to mean digital data exchange between a centrally located mainframe computer and a remote computer terminal, or possibly between two terminals without a computer involved. | | | While simple in concept, the many opportunities for data error that occur when transmitting data through an analog channel require a relatively complex design. | | | CableEye's software automatically draws schematics whenever it tests a cable. |
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http://www.camiresearch.com/Data_Com_Basics/RS232_standard.html
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| | Techworld.com - Microsoft makes Office an 'open standard' |
| | Massachusetts has already instituted a software purchasing policy designed to increase competition between open source and proprietary software, and is planning to extend its policy to particular formats. | | | Governments around the world have begun to reconsider the use of proprietary formats, which usually lock them into using particular applications and may hinder archiving efforts. | | | However, support for Microsoft will make it more difficult for alternative formats to benefit from Massachusetts' open-standard policy. |
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http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2952
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| | Not All Welcome Open XML Standard |
| | In a later research note, 'Microsoft's Open XML Moves May Stall OpenDocument Format,' the Gartner analysts wrote, "This move will help to alter the perception that the Microsoft specification is not as open as the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications, which was approved by OASIS in May 2005 and submitted to the ISO in September. | | | Thus, users of third-party products won't likely be able to display Microsoft's files with 100 percent visual fidelity or to execute macros (which will be saved in a different format) without problems," said the analysts. | | | Want an easy way to keep up on the latest Linux and open source news, reviews and analysis? |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1900768,00.asp
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| | The Open Group: Boundaryless Information Flow through interoperability |
| | The Open Group-led Telcert project promises major implication for interoperability in learning technology | | | The Open Group's Interconnect Software Consortium (ICSC) releases Version 2.1 of the Interconnect Transport Application Programming Interface (IT-API) | | | The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program adds a complementary level |
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| | CO-LaN: Home |
| | CO-LaN members are committed to making Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) easier, faster and less expensive by achieving complete interoperability of CO compliant commercial CAPE software tools. | | | CO-LaN (the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network) is a neutral industry and academic association promoting open interface standards in process simulation software. |
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| | Developer Resources |
| | It requires Acrobat or Adobe Reader 6.0 software to open. | | | Provides additional information about blend modes for PDF transparency. |
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| | Open Media Commons |
| | This Open Media Commons Workshop is the first opportunity for the global community of developers to come together and hear about Sun's initial contributions as well as discuss how the various DRM and codec open source projects should progress going forward. | | | You are invited to participate in the Open Media Commons and develop royalty-free open solutions for digital content. | | | An interoperable DRM architecture implementing standardized interfaces and processes for the interoperability of DRM systems. |
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| | Open Standards: Principles and Practice: Index Page |
| | I made a few mistakes with the DFSG text and the Open Source organization that I don't want to repeat - I'll be watching out for them, you do too. | | | My intent is to refine this draft with community input, much as we refined the DFSG as Debian policy in a month-long discussion on Debian's private developer list. | | | With the Debian Free Software Guidelines, later known as the Open Source Definition, we were successful in defining the terms of discourse for an entire industry. |
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| | Free Standards Group -- Open Standards for Open Source |
| | The Free Standards Group (FSG), a not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes open source software standards, today announced Debian founder Ian Murdock has been appointed its chief technology officer and elected chair of the Linux Standard Base workgroup. | | | As founder of Debian -- one of the most successful open source projects in history -- and commercial custom Linux platform provider Progeny, Murdock brings unmatched experience building open source communities, driving technical consensus and solving Linux distribution challenges. | | | He will be speaking on how open standards are a critical part of every CIO's open source strategy. |
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| | Programming in Standard ML |
| | There are several implementations of Standard ML available for a variety of hardware and software platforms. | | | They began as lecture notes for 15-212: Fundamental Principles of Computer Science II, the second semester of the introductory sequence in the undergraduate computer science curriculum at Carnegie Mellon University. | | | Standard ML of New Jersey is a comprehensive implementation, and is the most widely used. |
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| | The Localization Industry Standards Association : Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) |
| | TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) is the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools. | | | Facilitating developer cooperation on the implementation of the standard in ways that maximize the effectiveness of TMX | | | Although TMX is an open standard and is free to implement, only products and software that have been certified as conforming to the TMX specification by LISA's third-party testing lab, are licensed to carry the TMX logo. |
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| | ZDNet: Tech News and White Papers for IT Professionals |
| | Where is the outrage as mainstream vendors acquire open source software firms | | | Does Sourcefire investigation reflect lack of understanding of open source? | | | Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released |
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http://www.zdnet.com/?legacy=cnet
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| | Forbes.com: Microsoft open up video standard for review |
| | Hardware makers could create digital video cameras that use the technology, for example, he said. | | | Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft competes with RealNetworks Inc. and Apple Computer Inc.'s QuickTime format in the market for video compression and streaming software. | | | With open standards, other software companies could create applications that use Microsoft's video-encoding technology, although they would have to pay a license fee, which Usher said would be "low-cost and straightforward." |
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/09/08/rtr1076292.html
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| | Open LDI Standard |
| | LDI is based on the de-facto industry standard "FPD-Link" which is used in the majority of SVGA and XGA based Notebook and Sub-notebook computers today. | | | Muxing / Demuxing of the VGA's Digital Interface to reduce | | | The "Open" of Open LDI represents the spirit of which this standard has been developed. |
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| | Speech Recognition Solutions - Open Standard |
| | Edify scored the highest of all competitors in the hybrid classification, signifying our tremendous strength in offering standards-based solutions that meet organizations needs over time. | | | Intervoice's speech recognition solution platform is built from the ground-up around open standards. | | | But unless the standards body is convinced that the proprietary markup should become the standard, the application and the platform become closed and proprietary, and potentially not supported. |
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http://www.edify.com/edify_open_standards.cfm
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| | International Digital Publishing Forum (formerly Open eBook Forum) |
| | Our members consist of academic, trade and professional publishers, hardware and software companies, digital content retailers, libraries, educational institutions, accessibility advocates and related organizations whose common goals are to advance the competitiveness and exposure of digital publishing. | | | The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), formerly the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry. | | | Provide information to members and the public on the industry through statistical reports, policy documents, educational programs and industry conferences. |
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| | OpenPGP.org - The OpenPGP Alliance Home Page |
| | It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Proposed Standard RFC 2440. | | | The OpenPGP standard was originally derived from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), first created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991. | | | The OpenPGP Alliance is a growing group of companies and other organizations that are implementers of the OpenPGP Proposed Standard. |
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| | OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC |
| | OpenDocument is an XML-based file format specification for office applications. | | | A public mailing list 'opendocument-users' has been created that provides an open forum for developers and users to exchange ideas and information on implementing and adopting OASIS OpenDocument. | | | The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications. |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
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| | Microsoft endorses Open Document standard it condemns |
| | I know I'll be able to open this document forever – as long as we use the same binary formats, that is. µ | | | This article was written in OpenOffice.org – because I prefer it, and the lack of vendor lock in. | | | The interesting thing, which is also extremely contradictory, is that Microsoft is saying that by forcing the use of the Open Document format, it is forcing the state, its agencies and employees to use a document type that is less functional, but that is also a sponsor of the group that created the OpenDocument standard. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25933
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| | KVR : VST Plugins DirectX (DX) Audio Units (AU) : Audio Plugin News, Reviews and Community (Effects, Instruments and ... |
| | Each of the 10 Collections comes with the Software Instrument, Standard Library and Extended Library on DVD; pricing varies - please see the VSL website for more information. | | | For each Collection's "Standard Price" customers get the software instrument (i.e., the audio engine with its user interface) and the Standard Library. | | | KVR Audio is the Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plugins. |
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http://www.kvraudio.com/index.php?s=instruments
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| | Open Source Initiative OSI - Licensing |
| | If you distribute your software under one of these licenses, you are permitted to say that your software is "OSI Certified Open Source Software." | | | The contents of this website are licensed under the Open Software License 2.1 or Academic Free License 2.1 | | | Copyright © 2006 by the Open Source Initiative |
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| | IBM AIX: Open Systems Standard Communication (OSSC) |
| | UNIX and Open Systems > AIX 5L > Operating system > Open systems and standards > | | | Called Open Systems Standard Communication (OSSC), it offers a suite of OSI networking applications that is available today to meet the requirements of open systems. | | | The IBM Corporation offers an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) support product for the IBM |
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http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/networking/ossc
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| | Pipeline Open Data Standard Association |
| | Working experts in each of the business topics are invited to participate in an open process to create the integrated modules of the standard model. | | | The PODS Association, Inc. (Pipeline Open Data Standard) brings world-wide pipeline industry experts together in a round table approach to engineer a business driven data model. | | | The PODS™ approach ensures that the model will meet today’s and tomorrow's needs. |
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| | Macromedia - Macromedia Flash Player |
| | Flash Player 8 is a light-weight, secure, runtime for content and applications and is built-on a number of web standards including the ECMA-262 programming language. |
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http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open
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| | Open Theme Standard |
| | LiteStep's customizability and openness stem from many things such as its internal architecture, its reliance on plugins to implement features rather than a bloated core, and the fact that when it comes to themes, it doesn't really dictate how things should be done. | | | LiteStep themes are still as aesthetically and functionally distinct as they ever were, but certain aspects of their behaviour have been reigned in, in order to provide users with some consistency in their user interface (mainly hotkeys and popup menu) and simplify the process of LiteStep theme installation. | | | Returning now to the Open Theme Standard for LiteStep, the OTS defines a set format for LiteStep themes. |
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| | Open Standards |
| | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 - Programming languages and, operating systems | | | The site www.open-std.org is holding a number of web pages for groups producing open standards: |
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| | Open Standard Content Cookies |
| | There is an increasing requirement to retrieve more data on individual Web users for delivery of user-sensitive pages and acquiring marketing information. | | | Open Standard Content Cookies allow content negotiation by embedding personal profile information in a request. | | | The Open Profiling Standard [1] is geared toward gathering marketing demographics, while information on an individual user is encrypted. |
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http://cannibal.mi.org/~chad/oscc.html
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| | OASIS |
| | Spread global adoption by translating an OASIS Standard into another language. | | | OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Standards for Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) | | | Members Approve Election Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard |
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| | World Wide Web Consortium |
| | The W3C Offices translate many W3C home page news items. | | | We provide Web Solutions in adherence with the spirit of W3C, such as Web Standard Conformance Service and Accessibility Consulting Service. |
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| | Rare Breed Network: Redbone Coonhound Standard |
| | This standard was drafted for two real purposes: first, to act as a guide for the judges at Bench Shows, and second, to furnish suggestions for the breeders in their aims toward improving the breed to higher ideals in their breeding. | | | Web site designed and maintained by Atlantic Document Services. | | | Years ago most coon hunters who owned a red dog of unknown ancestry, but proven ability in tracking and treeing raccoons, called his dog a "Redbone". |
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| | The Weekly Standard |
| | Listening in on our enemies has never been against the law. | | | Updates from the second annual cruise: It's bigger, better, Standarder. | | | Tom DeLay faces a surprisingly strong primary challenge. |
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