SV: [governance] Re: Why standards from ISO are not freely available?

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear   all,

I am  sure MP3 is an open standard! This is now the standard DAISY use for its production of talking books for persons with reading and writing disabilities and mainly blind and visually impaired persons, but also others. 

MP3 is the base and then DAISY  standards is brought in to make the reading capacity to fit  for instance blind persons who need to rotate around in a book, speed up the speech or search for particular parts in the book. 

DAISY standard is also open for everyone.

Kind regards
Kicki 


Kicki Nordström
Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF) 
World Blind Union (WBU)
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)8 399 000
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Från: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at internatif.org] 
Skickat: den 27 augusti 2008 12:11
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Jeremy Shtern
Ämne: [governance] Re: Why standards from ISO are not freely available?

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:43:30PM -0400,  Jeremy Shtern <jeremy.shtern at umontreal.ca> wrote  a message of 73 lines which said:

> A colleague asked me a standards question that I thought maybe 
> somebody on the list might have the answer to: is MP3 an open standard or not?

Unlike "free software" where all the definitions yield almost the same result, there is no consensus on what is an open standard.

See varied (really varied) definitions:

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/an_emerging_understanding_of_open_standards
(my preferred one)
http://www.perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html
http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
http://www.itst.dk/arkitektur-og-standarder/Standardisering/Aabnestandarder/baggrundsrapporter/Evaluation%20of%20Ten%20Standard%20Setting%20Organizations.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3761

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