[OpenISO] openiso

[Janet Hawtin]

On 9/6/07, Marc Ravensbergen <marc at shonetic.com> wrote:

> > Here's a first proposal for a rating system:

I think you should turn around the requirements.
The ISO body is having problems because a consumer of their standards
cannot tell what it is good for because there are no clear guarantees
about what they offer.

If OpenISO is able to approve only material which has a known and
explicit legal safety common to all their standards and a known and
agreed purpose as a best practice standard with reliable data
interoperability then it is better for openISO to be more careful
about those values and not to pass things which a consumer cannot
understand as being something fit for use. Or worse if someone thinks
it must be good because it is approved which is where ISO are heading.

The standards process has to mean something commonly recognisable for
people choosing technologies and formats. That is the value of the
process imho.
This means the approval should mean something explicit for all standards.