Erlend Øverby - Blog

This is my position paper for the CETIS – Future of Interoperability Standards Meeting 2010
Development of standards
There is a difference in developing a specification for a small community, and to develop a standard/specification with a global community.
In my view there are several challenges that need to be met and addressed.
In this position paper I will [...]

I was commenting on the ISO/IEC FCD 12785-1 document, and realised that I do have a hang-up on the use of “ordered” in a standard.
To be clear – I’m not in favour of the use of “ordered” – in general implied semantic meaning to ordering of elements is a bad idea.
If there is implied semantics [...]

Dette er en kronikk som ble trykket i ComputerWorld våren 2008.
Argumentene gjelder fremdeles.
Microsoft blokkerer forbedring av egen standard
Det har i det siste vært skrevet mye om OOXML og hvordan Microsoft og andre aktører agerer. Noen fremstiller dette som en kamp mellom det gode og det onde, hvor det onde er representert ved Microsoft. Dette er [...]