Digital Standards and the "Hague declaration"

dear all,

The new "Digital Standards Organisation", an OSI-like organisation
with some familiar names attached to it, is launching around a
Declaration on the importance of open "digital standards" and asking 
for signups in support: http://www.digistan.org/hague-declaration:en

I wrote a bit about what I make of their work and how it relates to
some of what's being done at opendefinition.org here on the OKFN blog:
http://blog.okfn.org/2008/05/14/dispatches-from-digistan/

----- Forwarded message from Chris Puttick
<chris.puttick@...> -----
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

Hi all

A new group is being formed to promote open digital standards, starting with a declaration regarding the
importance of digital standards being truly open:

http://www.digistan.org/hague-declaration:en

Please read it and sign if you agree. I'm sure most working with spatial data would have encountered
problems with the core areas where standards are missing or not being supported properly. Think GIS
projects. Or CAD. I'm sure there are others...

Cheers

Chris

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