[OpenISO] Openness requirement: "open" maintenance process

[Norbert Bollow]

Rob Weir and PJ of Groklaw (see
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071206131310362 ) are
pointing out an issue regarding the maintenance of standards that IMO
needs to be mentioned explicitly in the OpenISO.org Core Guidelines
document.  I've updated the draft accordingly.

The full OpenISO.org Core Guidelines draft is at
http://OpenISO.org/OI/A00

Diff to the previous version follows after the "snip" line.

If anyone thinks that this change is not appropriate, please post an
email explaining the objection to the discuss at OpenISO.org mailing
list.

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--- A200:draft2 2007-09-24 17:02:39.000000000 +0200
+++ A200:draft3 2007-12-07 11:13:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-DocumentID: OI A200:draft2
+DocumentID: OI A200:draft3
 ShortTitle: Core Guidelines
 LongTitle: OpenISO.org Core Guidelines
-Date: 2007-09-24, 2007-W39-1
+Date: 2007-12-07, 2007-W49-5
 Working-Group: discuss at OpenISO.org
 Editor: Norbert Bollow
 About: OpenISO.org
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@


 Openness requirements will include that there should be no patent
-issues etc.
+issues etc, and that the process by means of which the specification
+is maintained is "open" in the sense that all legitimate concerns and
+commercial interests are fairly considered.

 Maturity requirements include that a complete non-copyleft or
 weak-copyleft free software implementation should exist, and that the

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Greetings,
Norbert


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
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Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
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