As we near the end of the month and the Easter break, a lot has happened in the world of standards. Next week, we will post a monthly summary but for this week, here are the latest developments in Standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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“A Tale of Two Tragedies – A plea for open standards” by Maurits Dolmans – published recently in the “International Free and Open Source Software Law Review” (www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr) – contrasts and compares the benefits of royalty-free licensing to that of FRAND in the context of the European ICT sector and examines a number of proposed criteria for defining an Open Standard.
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On wednesday February 23, Talkstandards.com held an online open forum to discuss a number of issues related to recent EU policy developments, building upon our December 22nd mini-event “European Interoperability Strategy“.  Two communications released late last year by the European Commission related to e-Government and standardization – the European Interoperability Framework version 2 and updated Guidelines for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements – were central to the discussion, particularly the inclusion of FRAND licensing within the EIF specification of a open standard.

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This article is co-authored by Susannah Sheppard, Consultant, and Richard Kemp, Senior and Commercial Technology Partner of Kemp Little LLP.

This comment highlights several of the issues we raised in a recently published article that discusses the recently released EIF v2, located at http://www.kemplittle.com/html/stay-posted/publications/short-lines/the-new-european-interoperability-framework.html?SESSIONFRONT=52d1177702a3926ecb525037e483b78a

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) dominates the web browser market in terms of users, commanding a market share of over 60%. But there is an increasing trend towards alternatives such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. These alternatives, which in according to some measures offer superior technical performance and standards compliance, have gradually been eroding IE’s lead.

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This is the first in a series of articles in which contributor Stacy Baird will analyse the role of governments in standards setting initiatives which will be posted on a bi-weekly basis – Editor

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Interoperability between ICT systems in the public sector is an important policy objective for the European Union. It is regarded an important means to solve conventional issues relating to digital communications between independent organizations and entities and enable seamless and cost-effective delivery of public services. Hopes are that is should also facilitate cross-border mobility. It is thus at the heart of the EU policy to create an integrated market and better European public services.

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It has been a big week for open source this week with significant uptake of open source initiatives.

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The openEHR Foundation is an international non-profit foundation founded in 2000, with the ambition to make interoperable and lifelong electronic health records (EHR) a reality and improve medical care in the information society through the open standard specification openEHR.
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This version 2009-05-07

Domain: eHealth standards, see eHealth standardization map http://www.talkstandards.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/map-ehealth-sso.jpg [accurate?]

The openEHR Foundation is an international non-profit foundation founded in 2000, with the ambition to make interoperable and lifelong electronic health records (EHR) a reality and improve medical care in the information society through the open standard specification openEHR. The foundation is dedicated to the development of specifications, open source software and tools for the creation of adaptable health computing systems and patient-centric electronic health records. The focus in openEHR is not on how different systems exchange data with each other, but on architecture, reference models and especially archetype models for standardization of data, irrespective of the application of such data. The term openEHR is used both for the foundation and its published work. The first version, openEHR 1.0, was released in February 2006, and the latest version, openEHR 1.0.2 was published on New Year’s Eve in 2008. [extent to which openEHR and other SSOs overlap? Specific niche for openEHR?]

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