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How To Navigate A Sea of SOA Standardshttp://www.cio.com/article/104007/How_To_Navigate_A_Sea_of_SOA_Standards By Bob Violino, CIO.com. Facing too many emerging standards -- and not enough vendor support for them -- in your service-oriented architecture implementation? Consider these steps in your planning. While the potential benefits of SOA are clear, like the ability to reuse existing assets, the standards picture looks anything but settled. Not only did Forrester Research count some 115 standards floating around SOA and Web services in its most recent study on that topic, but also, it found that just confirming which vendors support which standards is nearly impossible. Yet CIOs must press ahead with SOA projects in order to meet business needs. Hong Zhang, director and chief architect of IT Architectures and Standards at General Motors, has been balancing the standards dilemma with ongoing SOA work for several years.- Service-Oriented Architecture - Standards - |
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An angry fixhttp://www.zeldman.com/2006/07/17/an-angry-fix/ Some of the best minds working in web standards have been quietly or loudly abandoning the W3C. Björn Hörmann is the latest. His reasons for leaving the W3C QA Group make compelling reading (hat tip: Terje Bless). I believe in W3C standards, particularly the ones you and I use every day, but I worry about the direction in which the W3C is headed.- Web Technologies - Standards - |
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Standards as axiomshttp://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2006/07/19/standards-as-axioms/ An important, nay, foundational part of my mental model for how Internet scale systems work (and many other things, in fact), is that I view standards as axioms. In linear algebra, there’s the concept of span, which is, effectively, a function that takes a set of vectors as input, and yields the vector space spanned by those vectors; the set of all reachable points. Also, for any given vector space you can find a set of axioms - a minimal set of vectors which are linearly independent of each other (orthogonal), but still span the space.- Standards - |
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ICT Standardisationhttp://www.ictstandardisation.eu/ The European Commission has launched a study to prepare recommendations that will ensure the EU's standardisation policy for the information and communication technology sector meets the challenges of today's fast moving markets. All standardisation stakeholders are invited to respond to the opinion survey which will be used to help compile the report being prepared by an outside contractor. The analysis is being conducted against the background of major changes in the ICT sector. The combination of liberalisation and globalisation has brought competition within and between sectors, strategic partnerships between companies and a decreasing role for governments. The most striking development is the shift from hardware to software and the impact this has on traditional standardisation policy. The results of the study, and its proposals, will be presented at an open workshop in spring 2007.- Standards - |
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Standards, not infrastructure are way forward for Lloyd's of LondonLloyd's of London has no plans to reverse its recent arm's-length approach to market technology, five months after walking away from an ill-fated �70m investment in electronic trading, the insurance market's IT chief has told Computer Weekly. Chris Rawson, chief information officer at Lloyd's, said the IT department's commitment to the market now centred around standards rather than infrastructure, and the recent arrival of new chief executive Richard Ward was not likely to change that position.- Standards - |
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The trouble of writing a standards compliant websitehttp://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1661 "One of my tasks at work is to write, enhance and maintain a small website for my boss. Having been given free reign, I—of course—decided to host it on a LAMP server. No trouble here. Not wanting to use outdated technology that would require extensive rewriting after a few years, I decided to stick to standards—and I learnt XHTML 1.1."- Web Technologies - Standards - XHTML - |
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Web Apps Get New Open Source App Serverhttp://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189700068 A new open source application server is available for download from WSO2 Inc., a little known but highly regarded Sri Lankan firm of open source developers. It's Tungsten 1.0 application server is designed to handle Ajax and other scripting based applications more efficiently. The WSO2 stands for Web Services Oxygenation, perhaps an alchemist's way of saying it's time to activate a new generation of Web applications. Nevertheless, WSO2 is bringing a fresh set of concepts and standards to the notion of an application server, software that gives a Web site its ability to scale across many users. Application servers available today, such as IBM WebSphere, BEA Systems WebLogic, and Red Hat's JBoss, are written in Java and geared to run Java applications. WSO2's Tungsten 1.0 comes in both Java and C versions, with the latter offering some advantages when it comes to dealing with Web technologies. Many applications today are being written in the popular PHP scripting language, which itself is based on C, points out Sanjiva Weerawarana, a former IBM Web services developer who is CEO of WSO2. Tungsten is meant to process incoming XML messages and connect them to back-end SAP or other applications. "We take the XML payload and context and pass it to the application directly" without intermediate parsers or processing, says Weerawarana. Tungsten is designed to be a lighter weight application server, geared to emerging Web standards. It supports Web Services Description Language, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, MTOM, XOP, SOAP, and other standards, Tungsten works as an efficient distributor of XML and Javascript to browsers, as used in Ajax applications, Weerawarana says.- Standards - Open Source - |
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Stakeholders Call for Increased Cooperation at Open Forum for Standards Developershttp://www.ansi.org/news_publications/news_story.aspx?menuid=7&articleid=1256 On June 20-21, nearly one hundred stakeholders from standards developers, consortia and other forums, industry, government, and consumers gathered in New York City for the Open Forum for Standards Developers hosted by American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The forum’s panel discussions, presentations, open dialogue, and networking opportunities allowed the attendees to exchange perspectives on the most salient issues facing standardization today with the purpose of identifying opportunities for harmonization and collaboration.- Standards - |
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Open to the publichttp://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39276991,00.htm We paid for it. We want it. Keeping public data open is the only acceptable standard for government IT.- Standards - eGovernment - Open Standards - |
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On the subject of double standardsSøren Thing Pedersen about standards and double standards- Standards - Document Formats - Open Standards - B103 - |
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Standardization: Unifier or Divider?http://www.thebolingroup.com/standardization_unifierordivider_conference_analysis.pdf Conference summary and analysis, prepared by Sherrie Bolin- Standards - |
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Six Apart: Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard popularhttp://www.sixapart.com/pronet/weblog/2006/02/submitting_trac.html Six Apart is beginning the process of submitting TrackBack to the Internet community and establishing TrackBack as a standard. To that end, Six Apart would like to invite anyone who is interested to join a provisional TrackBack Working Group by signing up for the TrackBack-protocol mailing list, and engaging its members in a discussion about the future of TrackBack.- Standards - Syndication - Blogging tools - |
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Will the real C++ please stand up?http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2563 By David Berlind on ZDNet. About Ecma's Common Langauge Infrastructure specification (the CLI), Microsoft and C++.- Standards - |
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Is ODF an Open Standard?http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060209093903413 By David A. Wheeler. GROKLAW, February 09 2006- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Why I Hate Frameworkshttp://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12 BenjiSmith . 30. september 2005 on how he got his own general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory when all he wanted was a spicerack.- Standards - Technology - Enterprise Architecture - Patternthinking - |
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An Economic Basis for Open Standardshttp://flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D04-openstandards-v6.pdf FLOSSPOLS Open Standards and Interoperability Report by Rishab Ghosh. December 2005.- Standards - Interoperability - Open Standards - |
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John Palfrey: Open Standards in Massachusettshttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2005/12/14 Summary of RemarksDecember 14, 2005- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Politics and the perversion of standardshttp://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2120 Analysis of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) saga as it unfolds in Massachusetts. Starring Senator Mark Pacheco, CIO Peter Quinn, and ITD general counsel Linda Hamel. By David Berlind, Between the Lines, ZDNet.com, November 7, 2005- Standards - Document Formats - Interoperability - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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MA and Open Standards and Interoperabilityhttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=837 Berkman Center for Internet & Society hosted a two-hour discussion session on Open Standards and Interoperability. Our discussion was meant to be an extension of the work of the Open ePolicy Group. Panelists, including Steve Bratt, Chief Operating Officer W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), Doug Levin, Chief Executive Officer of Black Duck Software, Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source IBM Corporation, Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, and John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center, led the discussion, which involved comments from dozens of participants. Dan Bricklin and David Berlind were key contributors. The full event was recorded and is available online.- Standards - Document Formats - Interoperability - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Democracy and standardshttp://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/index.php?p=1502 John Carroll on ZDNet.com.- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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OASIS Strategyhttp://www.oasis-open.org/who/strategy.php Strategic goals and actions for achieving the OASIS mission.- Standards - Open Standards - |
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Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystemshttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/ The Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems: a user-friendly guide for policymakers and technologists offerings tools for understanding, creating, and sustaining open information and communication technologies ecosystems. This is where we introduce the term openization.- Standards - Technology - Open Source - eGovernment - Interoperability - Open Standards - |
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Massachusetts and OpenDocument: A Brave New World?http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/sep05.php#feature Article by Andrew Updegrove. This article describes the history of both the process followed by the ITD as well as that of the OpenDocument OASIS Standard, summarizes and assesses the arguments for and against the amendments made by those that offered public comments, and finally seeks to evaluate the potential impact of the Massachusetts decision on further government information technology policy evolution around the world.- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Business Readiness RatingA Proposed Open Standard to Facilitate Assessment and Adoption of Open Source Software- Standards - Open Source - |
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Scaffolding the New Web: Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economyhttp://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1215/ To discover whether today's standards processes are adequate, where they are taking the industry, and whether government intervention will be required to address systemic failures in their development, RAND undertook five case studies. Published in 2000 and the 123 paged report is available for download.- Standards - |
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