[DS-public] PS: 'open standards' discussion: IBM ANNOUNCES NEWI.T. STANDARDS POLICY

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If you've been following my writings, you can guess who made sure the 
"Civil ICT Standards" concept and language got in there.

Andy



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PS: in research.ibm.com//files/standards_wikis.shtml 
 
- the 'The Hague declaration' is mentioned :)
- the term 'Civil ICT standards' is used, which may be a useful term to 
pinpoint the need for increased 'public interest' driven 
involvement/presence of government in standardisation
 
Tineke

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Onderwerp: [DS-domino-public] 'open standards' discussion: IBM ANNOUNCES 
NEWI.T. STANDARDS POLICY

Hi, this might interest you.
Tineke
 
                  IBM ANNOUNCES NEW I.T. STANDARDS POLICY

To encourage improved tech standards quality and transparency, and promote
   equal participation of growth markets in globally integrated economy

ARMONK, NEW YORK . . . September 23, 2008 -  IBM today announced that,
effective immediately, it is instituting a new corporate policy that
formalizes the company's behavior when helping to create open technical
standards.  Such standards enable electronic devices and software programs
to interoperate with one another.

In the globally integrated economy, open technical standards are integral
to enabling the delivery of everything from disaster relief services and
health care, to business services and consumer entertainment.   They 
enable
governments to create economic development platforms and deliver services
to their citizens.

The tenets of IBM's new policy are to:

   Begin or end participation in standards bodies based on the quality and
   openness of their processes, membership rules, and intellectual 
property
   policies.

   Encourage emerging and developed economies to both adopt open global
   standards and to participate in the creation of those standards.

   Advance governance rules within standards bodies that ensure technology
   decisions, votes, and dispute resolutions are made fairly by 
independent
   participants, protected from undue influence.

   Collaborate with standards bodies and developer communities to ensure
   that open software interoperability standards are freely available and
   implementable.

   Help drive the creation of clear, simple and consistent intellectual
   property policies for standards organizations, thereby enabling
   standards developers and implementers to make informed technical and
   business decisions.


IBM encouraged members of standards communities to adopt similar
principles, which are more stringent than required by existing laws or
policies.  IBM's new standards policy promotes simplified and consistent
intellectual property practices, and emphasizes that all stakeholders,
including the open source community and those in growth markets, should
have equal footing as they participate in the standards process.

IBM described steps to put these principles into action.  For example, the
company will:

   Review and take necessary actions concerning its membership in 
standards
   organizations.

   In the regions and countries where we do business, encourage local
   participation in the creation and use of standards that solve the
   problems and meet the requirements of all affected stakeholders around
   the world.  We will advocate governance policies in standards bodies
   that encourage diverse participation.

   Work for process reform in standards organizations so that proxies or
   surrogates cannot be used in standards creation and approval.

   Collaborate with standards organizations and stakeholders to streamline
   and consolidate intellectual property licenses and policies, with a
   focus on enabling software applications to become more easily
   interoperable by the use of open standards.

IBM's principles were inspired by the results of an online conversation
facilitated by IBM during the summer of 2008, in which 70 independent,
forward-thinking experts across the globe -- from academia,
standards-setting, law, government, and public policy -- debated the
question of whether standard setting bodies have kept pace with today's
commercial, social, legal and political realities.  Actionable suggestions
to modernize their processes were offered during the six-week discussion
(research.ibm.com//files/standards_wikis.shtml), with an eye toward
increasing standards transparency, fairness, and quality.

An invitation-only summit is planned for November, under Yale University's
auspices, that will flesh out recommendations from the online discussion
and begin steps toward improving the standards-setting environment.

"Common, open and consensus-based technology standards from reputable
standards bodies help ensure that each of us can easily purchase and
interchangeably use computing technology from multiple vendors," said Bob
Sutor, IBM vice president of open source and standards.  "The ways in 
which
they are created and adopted provide reasonable assurances that disparate
products will work with one another, and withstand the test of time."

About IBM

For more information about IBM, please visit ibm.com

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