Legal Research

Moving To Digistan?

By Simon Fodden

The wonderfully named Digital Standards Organization, i.e. Digistan:

seeks to promote customer choice, vendor competition, and overall growth in the global digital economy through the understanding, development, and adoption of free and open digital standards (”open standards”).

Open standards are specifications that are “immune to vendor capture.” Digistan has tightened up the EU definition of that key phrase, and is now promoting its adoption by (European at first) governments within a digital Hague Declaration.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).