De: Gustavo Homem <gustavo.homem(a)esop.pt> Para: gustavo.homem(a)esop.pt Asunto: single vs multiple standards - ** URGENT ** Data: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:44:39 +0200 Dear all, Next week the Portuguese parliament will vote a new law for the adoption of open standards in public services IT systems. The parliamentary commission who prepared this law is in doubt if the public services should adopt one standard for each purpose, that is a file format for documents, a file format for audio, one protocol for file transfers, etc, or allow multiple overlapping open standards for the same purpose. ESOP thinks that a unique standard for each logical purpose is the way to go, but we would like to reinforce our position with foreign legislation or any european recommendations that match our position. Tomorrow we will need to send this information to the Portuguese parliament, so it would be very useful any kind of information you could provide us about the adoption or the recommendations of a single open standard for each purpose. We appreciate your advice on this important turning point of our IT policies. Best regards Gustavo -- ESOP - Associação de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas http://esop.pt