The document discusses open standards, which are technology standards that are publicly available, collaboratively developed through consensus, and intended for widespread adoption. Open standards promote interoperability, data exchange, and prevent vendor lock-in. The principles of open standards include availability, no royalty fees, no discrimination of implementers, and ongoing support. Examples of applications that use open standards are word processing, web browsing, email, and databases.

1. OPEN STANDARD John J. Macasio Technology Officer, StepDeskPhil

2. PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES To describe the core principles and characteristics on open standard, to identify the business ready applications that implement open standard.

3. OPEN STANDARD: DESCRIPTION Open Standards are standards made available to the general public and are developed (or approved) and maintained via a collaborative and consensus driven process. "Open Standards" facilitate interoperability and data exchange among different products or services and are intended for widespread adoption .

4. OPEN STANDARD: ISSUES Competency Building: Interoperatibility Requirements versus Commercial Vendor Specifications Technology Development and Use: Dependency and Exclusivity versus Choice and Sharing Technology Acquisition and Support: Lock-In versus Open-Option

5. PRINCIPLES & CHARACTERISTICS AVAILABILITY MAXIMIZE END-USER CHOICE NO ROYALTY NO DISCRIMINATION EXTENSION OR SUBSET PREDATORY PRACTICES -BrucePerens Open Meeting Consensus Due Process Open IPR One World Open Change Open Documents Open Interface Open Use On-going Support -Ken Krechmer

6. APPLICATIONS e-Citizen Card Authoring & Publishing Communication & Collaboration Digital Safety & Security e-Services Systems Word Processing Calculation Worksheet Multimedia Presentation Video Production Image Processing Desktop & Web Publishing Internet Browsing E-Mail & Messaging WebCasting Net Telephony Anti-Virus & Spam Back-up Utilities Encryption e-Commerce e-Learning Application & Databases OPEN STANDARD ACTUALIZATION LICENSING SCHEMES OPERATING ENVIRONMENT FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES DATA & FILE TYPES PROTOCOL REFERENCES SECURITY REFERENCES

7. PRODUCTS e-Citizen Card Authoring & Publishing Communication & Collaboration Digital Safety & Security e-Services Systems OoO WRITE OoO CALC OoO IMPRES AVIDEMUX, WINKS GIMP, INKSCAPE SCRIBUS, KOMPOZER FIREFOX, CHROME THUNDERBIRD e-PRESENCE TRIXBOX CLAM AV, WINPOOH COBIAN, 7ZIP AXCRYPT ZEN CART A-TUTOR, MOODLE PHP, AJAX, MYSQL OPEN STANDARD SAMPLES GPL, CC, Public Domain Linux, Windows, Macintosh I/O Interfaces, Procedures doc, odf, png, avi, html TCP/IP, POP3 Encrytion

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