Online Forum: January 28, 2010 :: 17:00 - 19:00 GMT
Open Forum: SSO Governance

Open Forum: SSO Governance

Welcome!

This open forum is set to discuss SSO Governance and the rules of standardization. During today’s forum we will discuss several contributions which will be published continuously in the column to the right. The tentative schedule is as follows:

5:00 PM (GMT): Oliver Bell on Reforming the Reformist Agenda

5:20 PM: Anne Layne-Farrar on The Government’s Role in Standard Setting Governance

5:40 PM: Ajit Jaokar on The Open Web Foundation and the Evolution of Web SSOs?

6:00 PM: Interview with Per Andersen, IDC

6:20 PM: Interview with Peter Brown, OASIS

With this said I now open the forum for further discussion!

Mattias Ganslandt

recent ARTICLES

Open Forum: SSO Governance- A Summary

Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 3rd, 2010

The benefits from diversity and the risks of government intervention were at the center of the discussion during TalkStandards’ open forum on the iss...

Interview with Peter Brown, Chairman of OASIS Board

Posted By admin on January 28th, 2010

This interview with Peter Brown, Chairman of the OASIS Board, was conducted by email for the Talkstandards.com open forum on SSO Governance. Peter...

Interview with Per Andersen, Managing Director IDC Nordic & Benelux

Posted By admin on January 28th, 2010

This interview with Per Andersen, Managing Director of IDC Nordic & Benelux, was conducted for Talkstandards.com via email during January 2010 ...

The Open Web Foundation and the Evolution of Web SSO?

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Greasing the Gears or Gumming Them Up? The Government's Role in Standard Setting Governance

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In a speech last October, Neelie Kroes summed up the Commission’s stance (at the time) toward standard setting and, in doing so, highlighted a key ...

Reforming the Reformist Agenda

Posted By Oliver Bell on January 28th, 2010

Conversations about the governance of standards setting organizations will from time to time stray towards the topic of reform, along with the need for...
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