Open Standards Requirements

Open Standards Requirements

An open society, if it utilizes communications systems, requires open standards. The personal computer revolution and the Internet have resulted in a vast new wave of Internet users. These new users have a material interest in the technical standards that proscribe their communications. These new users make new demands on the standardization processes, often with the rallying cry, “open standar...

Open standards, open formats, and open source

The paper proposes some comments and reflections on the notion of “openness” and on how it relates to three important topics: open standards, open formats, and open source. Often, these terms are considered equivalent and/or mutually implicated: “open source is the only way to enforce and exploit open standards”. This position is misleading, as it increases the confusion about this complex and ...

Open Standards Cup

A formal approach to requirements based testing in open systems standards

Experience with an innovative approach to requirements based testing in the IEEE POSIX arena is presented. The work described in this paper is based on a full scale conformance test suite development for the standard IEEE Std 1003.5 The Ada Language Binding to POSIX. The approach taken in this work is based on a formal description of test requirements which can be automatically translated into ...

Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access

For national advisory services in the UK (UKOLN, CETIS, and OSS Watch), varieties of openness (open source software, open standards, and open access to research publications and data) present an interesting challenge. Higher education is often keen to embrace openness, including new tools such as blogs and wikis for students and staff. For advisory services, the goal is to achieve the best solu...