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RE: Answering Microsoft: Comments on Microsoft's Letter to MA

• To: 'John Heinstein' <jheinstein@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Answering Microsoft: Comments on Microsoft's Letter to MA ~ by David A. Wheeler
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:37:56 -0600

XML Document Formats, and likely this particular issue, is the topic 
of a town hall meeting at XML 2005 in Atlanta next month (or this 
month if you get this message in the morning).  If this decision 
interests you, please attend.

If there is really an inflection point in the markets created 
around XML at this time, it is about the limits of XML as a standard 
to create interoperable formats, and the need to fully come to 
grips with the responsibilities format implementors have to assume. 
The MA decisions are an excellent example of how these responsibilities 
are being perceived by customers, by implementors and by the discretionary 
functions of governments.

There is nothing new in markup.  The markup specialists know this stuff. 
The inflection is in the understanding between governments and citizens 
with regards to what choices of technologies in procurements do to enable 
the best realization of the contract between government and the citizen. 

In short, what IS your tax dollar buying you?

I heard one of the MA wonks say, "This is not about procurement.", but 
that leads me to believe he did not really understand the impact of 
the decision both good and bad on those he serves.  This is definitely 
about procurement.  This is the market speaking.

len

From: John Heinstein [mailto:jheinstein@e...]

An interesting commentary on the Microsoft Office XML format and 
OpenDocument:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051029212458555

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