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Work done by various standards organisations.

O’Reilly and WIT

O’Reilly is pub­lish­ing a series of art­icles this month, all writ­ten by vari­ous women work­ing in tech­no­logy. For some reason they asked me to take part; I no idea what the cri­teria were. In fact I care­fully didn’t ask who else was invited, so I’ll be as sur­prised as the rest of you to see […]

2007 09 07 Technology Comments (0)

Definition of Open Standards

Rick Jel­liffe, who’s been in the middle of lots of stand­ards efforts, writes on the sub­ject at Is our idea of “Open Stand­ards” good enough? Veri­fi­able vendor-neutrality. Worth read­ing, although he does make the assump­tion that the term “open stand­ards” means “cre­ated by some stand­ards organ­iz­a­tion”. Although that’s a tempt­ing defin­i­tion, and the one used […]

2007 07 12 Comments (5)

Pat’s Lightbulb

I have the good for­tune to work with Pat Pat­ter­son at Sun and one of the things we dis­cussed quite a lot shortly before I went on mater­nity leave was how to make it easier for people to use Liberty pro­to­cols for their iden­tity needs. One of the com­plaints I’ve heard is that there isn’t […]

2006 11 28 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)

International Car Seats

We’re plan­ning on trav­el­ling to Aus­tralia for a vaca­tion, and since the baby will shortly need a new car seat any­way, I was hop­ing to get one that matches Cana­dian and Aus­tralian stand­ards. Britax makes car seats in each coun­try but when I called them they said the Cana­dian car seats did not meet Australian […]

2006 10 16 Family
General Comments (3)

End of an Era

Now that the XML Cata­log spe­cific­a­tion has been approved as an OASIS Stand­ard, it feels like the end of an era to me. I’ve been chair­ing the Entity Res­ol­u­tion Tech­nical Com­mit­tee since its incep­tion way back in Octo­ber 2000 , work­ing with a good group of people. As Norm put it today, we’d be happy […]

2005 10 04 Comments (7)

Friday the 13th

I spent a cer­tain pro­por­tion of Fri­day morn­ing watch­ing the web­cast of the Scott and Steve show — the update of the col­lab­or­a­tion work that Microsoft and Sun star­ted a year ago. Lots of other people have blogged about what was shown and the implic­a­tions (try Tim, Eve, Pat, Robin, Greg and Jonathan for some […]

2005 05 16 Technology Comments Off