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open standards requirements for software rationale open source initiative 400 captures 07 jul 2007 22 sep 2026 oct nov dec 30 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20221130050012 https opensource org osr rationale skip to main content home contact login search form open source initiative about board minutes organization operations articles of incorporation board elections bylaws conflict of interest volunteers staff associations history international authority recognition trademark logo trademark guidelines logo guidelines licenses open source definition licenses by category licenses by name license review process licence proliferation lp report to the board open standards the open standards requirement open standards requirement compliance open standards requirement rationale osr frequently asked questions membership become an osi member membership faq affiliates become an affiliate affiliate criteria mailing lists licensing code of conduct general code of conduct discussion list reports disclaimer for osi public forums policy on public communications and archives resources getting help bibliography open source case for business faq open source education articles books blog sponsors join open standards requirements for software rationale draft 5 2006 09 19 please send comments and suggestions via the osi contact form preamble as the internet shows so clearly there is great social technical and financial benefit that comes from massive interoperability this interoperability was not achieved in a vacuum nor was it necessarily intended or happened as expected by the major players of the industry in its early days but the processes and practices of the ietf the w3c the effect of events like the early interop conferences and the inclusive participation of virtually any party willing to follow the published protocols ultimately created something broadly useful and valuable metcalfe s law predicts that the value of interoperability increases geometrically with the number of compatible participants and reed s law predicts that the utility of a network implied by interoperable equivalence increases exponentially due to the number of possible subgroups that interoperability enables both theories have successfully informed the investment of literally billions of dollars of capital investment as the internet has become mainstream whichever law ultimately governs interoperability is a positive function governing value and thus any force that diminishes interoperability must be carefully scrutinized as it relates to ultimate and or total value if interoperability is a grand goal as it relates to software then standards are the critical tools for achieving this goal moreover standards that permit any license free open or closed any implementation any implementor will expand the universe of interoperability compared with standards that militate against specific types of license specific implementations or specific implementors thus for all the benefit that a standard can offer the important question to ask is what the standard does or does not offer based on its implicit or explicit license or technology freedoms or restrictions at this point in time it is has become largely intuitive across the industry and among users that broad and widely accepted standards are a good thing better certainly than proprietary standards in spite of these widely understood benefits many market participants paradoxically believe that they can obtain a commercial or strategic advantage through unique i e non standard functionality some seek to burnish the perception of their products or technologies by claiming that they implement open standards while at the same time adding extensions that are not part of the standard others go farther claiming that their unique implementations are themselves open standards a reversal of standards logic the result is that the usually undefined term open standard has become more of an aspirational term than a defining term a problem that we seek to rectify while the open source initiative is not in a position to completely define what is meant by the term open standard a term that may well become enshrined into law in some countries and hence the perview of legal authorities not the osi we believe that the osi does have both the opportunity and the obligation to try to constrain the problem in particular as custodians of the open source definition we believe it is essential to help decision makers and developers understand how open standards relate to open source software and to ensure that a poor understanding of the former does not discriminate against the latter the purpose of open standards the purpose of an open standard is to increase the market for a technology by enabling potential consumers or suppliers of that technology to invest in it without having to either pay monopoly rent or fear litigation on trade secret copyright patent or trademark causes of action no standard can properly be described as open except to the extent it achieves these goals the industry has learned by experience that the only software related standards to fully achieve these goals are those which not only permit but encourage open source implementations open source implementations are a quality and honesty check for any open standard that might be implemented in software whether an application programming interface a hardware interface a file format a communication protocol a specification of user interactions or any other form of data interchange and program control to help industry participants suppliers consumers and regulators identify and specify standards that permit open source implementations the osi has defined a minimal open standards requirement osr the osi has also created a set of criteria that can be used to judge whether a standard fully complies with that requirement problems not solved because not in scope the problem of creating a robust and high quality software standard one that meets the needs of vendors and customers users and implementors public and private sectors now and over time is complex and context dependent in some cases experienced hands are essential to the successful birthing of a standard in others a single idea from a single mind ensures the integrity of the problem definition and hence the problem s solution the open standards requirements for software does not prescribe how open standards for software should be created debated ratified and maintained except that they not preclude a viable implementation in open source there are any number of reasons why a particular open standard for software may succeed or fail in the market and meeting the open standards requirements is no guarantee that the standard will magically succeed on that fact alone however standards that preclude open source implementation are unhelpful to what is now a significant community of software developers and users and it would be disingenuous to call any such standards open when they are in fact closed issues how can we be broad enough to be relevant yet precise enough to be defensible implementation vs specification cf larry s paper is at http www rosenlaw com definingopenstandards pdf everyone should be free to implement open standards in both proprietary and open source software open standards should be available to everyone on royalty free terms open standards should be developed using a collaborative balanced and consensus based approval process open standards should be developed under formal and binding commitments for the disclosure and licensing of copyrights and patent claims open standards should be made available under reasonable reciprocal licenses that require licensees to share under the same terms their own patent claims reading on the standard the specifications for open standards should be available to everyone on open source copyright license terms you must 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