[meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)

[Ryan Stanyan]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:13:16 am Jeffry Smith wrote:
> My recommendation would be to include (based on IETF procedures) a
> requirement that any non-NH Government standard be implemented by at
> least 2 independent programs, that can read and write the format
> interchangably.  For NH Government developed ones, the final
> format/specification cannot be finalized until there are at least two
> indendent programs, to ensure that the format is, in fact able to be
> implemented by anyone.
> 
> jeff

I'm being a bit impractical and redundant here, but I would also like to see 
all standards be available to the public on request.  I know this was covered 
in the amendment, but I am looking at the ISO website and I'm seeing that for 
ODF it would cost about 335 dollars to get the specification for it.  I'm not 
sure how it could be implemented without infringing on the ISO's copyrights.  
I see a lot of standards that NH mandates, but they seem to be set at the RSA-
level.

-Ryan