On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ron Skeoch wrote:
> "OPEN ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" with Business and the people.
There is *no* mandate for the TATO or the FEDS to be open ;-(
> � - Microsoft Windows/NT
> � - Unix/Linux
> � - MacIntosh
> � - Other ?
BeOS, Amiga, Apple II, Win/CE, Win/ME, Win/95/98,
Win/3.1, Win/2K, Win/XP
> 2. That software solutions will utilise true open standards,
> without proprietary extensions.
> (ASCII, HTML, RTF, PDF ... But NOT M$ Word)
PDF: proprietary Abode format
RTF: proprietary MS format
> 5. All solutions provided shall NOT enable security breaches.
Hmmm ... should the solutions disable security breaches?
Not quite sure what you are gettin at here ... the holy grail
of the bugless programme? It ain't gonna happen ;-)
Throw out all of the above tosh and demand:
ATO solution that uses SSL, HTML/3.2 and HTTP/1.1.
Will work on *all* platforms, *all* browsers and require
*nothing extra*. See the online banking websites like
Westpac for an idea.
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