Ron Skeoch wrote:
> PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN THE PETITION BELOW
> SO WE CAN FURTHER DEVELOP A OPEN GOVERNMENT REGISTER
I think this petition needs some more thought.
> "OPEN ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" with Business and the people.
> That requires;
> 1. All Government data and/or software provided
> via electronic format is able to be used from
DELETE > common operating systems and utilities, i.e.:
INSERT any operating system that supports HTML 3 and HTTP 1.1
protocol
delete the bit below
> · - Microsoft Windows/NT
> · - Unix/Linux
> · - MacIntosh
> · - Other ?
> 2. That software solutions will utilise true open standards,
> without proprietary extensions.
> (ASCII, HTML, RTF, PDF ... But NOT M$ Word)
RTF is no longer supported by M$. I have seen for myself on their web
pages that it is in "maintainence mode".
They are moving to an XML format for word document exchange. You could
add here PostScript but why not just leave out the bits in brackets?
> 3. The interface specification is an open publication.
> 4. Where special readers, viewers or interactive solutions
> are required,
Change to:
4. Special readers, viewers or other software should not need to
be purchased or installed.
> - they will be made available to end-users
> at no cost premium between operating systems.
Bugger that, they would just add it to the cost of our account fees. We
pay oe way or another.
> . - they will not require the purchase of more
> than the simple utilities.
I don't want to pay anything ! They should use just HTML/SSH.
> 5. All solutions provided shall NOT enable security breaches.
You must be more specific here. This itself is meaningless.
Something like: Security must be appropriate for the information being
transfered and must be implemented in using open standards that allow
scrutiny and peer review.
> 6. That the total data transferred via the utility should be
> made known to the end user.
What in Megabytes?
The application shall inform the user of all the information that is
collected, who will have access to the information and how this
information will be used.
ie a typical privacy statement should be included.
Mike
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