Complete the post.

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Title: The many definitions of open standard
+Title: The many definitions of a open standard
 Tags: english, standard
-Date: 2010-12-27 14:30
+Date: 2010-12-27 14:45
 
 <p>One of the reasons I like the Digistan definition of
 "<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">Free and
@@ -122,21 +122,29 @@ Standards Checklist</a> with a fairly detailed description.</p>
 <ul>
 
 <li>Its development and management process must be collaborative and
-democratic:
+  democratic:
 
          <ul>
-         <li>Participation must be accessible to all those who wish to participate
-            and can meet fair and reasonable criteria imposed by the
-            organization under which it is developed and managed.
-         <li>The processes must be documented and, through a known method,
-            can be changed through input from all participants.
+
+         <li>Participation must be accessible to all those who wish to
+            participate and can meet fair and reasonable criteria
+            imposed by the organization under which it is developed
+            and managed.</li>
+
+         <li>The processes must be documented and, through a known
+            method, can be changed through input from all
+            participants.</li>
+
          <li>The process must be based on formal and binding commitments for
-            the disclosure and licensing of intellectual property rights.
-         <li>Development and management should strive for consensus, and an
-            appeals process must be clearly outlined.
-         <li>The standard specification must be open to extensive public review
-            at least once in its life-cycle, with comments duly discussed and
-            acted upon, if required.
+            the disclosure and licensing of intellectual property rights.</li>
+
+         <li>Development and management should strive for consensus,
+            and an appeals process must be clearly outlined.</li>
+
+         <li>The standard specification must be open to extensive
+            public review at least once in its life-cycle, with
+            comments duly discussed and acted upon, if required.</li>
+
          </ul>
 
 </li>
@@ -145,43 +153,60 @@ democratic:
 
 <p>Use and Licensing of an Open Standard</p>
 <ul>
-<li>The standard must describe an interface, not an implementation, and the
-  industry must be capable of creating multiple, competing implementations to
-  the interface described in the standard without undue or restrictive constraints.
-  Interfaces include APIs, protocols, schemas, data formats and their encoding.
-<li> The standard must not contain any proprietary "hooks" that create a technical
-  or economic barriers
-<li>Faithful implementations of the standard must interoperate. Interoperability
-  means the ability of a computer program to communicate and exchange
-  information with other computer programs and mutually to use the information
-  which has been exchanged. This includes the ability to use, convert, or
-  exchange file formats, protocols, schemas, interface information or
+
+<li>The standard must describe an interface, not an implementation,
+  and the industry must be capable of creating multiple, competing
+  implementations to the interface described in the standard without
+  undue or restrictive constraints.  Interfaces include APIs,
+  protocols, schemas, data formats and their encoding.</li>
+
+<li> The standard must not contain any proprietary "hooks" that create
+  a technical or economic barriers</li>
+
+<li>Faithful implementations of the standard must
+  interoperate. Interoperability means the ability of a computer
+  program to communicate and exchange information with other computer
+  programs and mutually to use the information which has been
+  exchanged. This includes the ability to use, convert, or exchange
+  file formats, protocols, schemas, interface information or
   conventions, so as to permit the computer program to work with other
-  computer programs and users in all the ways in which they are intended to
-  function.
-<li>It must be permissible for anyone to copy, distribute and read the standard for
-  a nominal fee, or even no fee. If there is a fee, it must be low enough to not
-  preclude widespread use.
-<li>It must be possible for anyone to obtain free (no royalties or fees; also known
-  as "royalty free"), worldwide, non-exclusive and perpetual licenses to all
-  essential patent claims to make, use and sell products based on the standard.
-  The only exceptions are terminations per the reciprocity and defensive
-  suspension terms outlined below. Essential patent claims include pending,
-  unpublished patents, published patents, and patent applications. The license
-  is only for the exact scope of the standard in question.
+  computer programs and users in all the ways in which they are
+  intended to function.</li>
+
+<li>It must be permissible for anyone to copy, distribute and read the
+  standard for a nominal fee, or even no fee. If there is a fee, it
+  must be low enough to not preclude widespread use.</li>
+
+<li>It must be possible for anyone to obtain free (no royalties or
+  fees; also known as "royalty free"), worldwide, non-exclusive and
+  perpetual licenses to all essential patent claims to make, use and
+  sell products based on the standard.  The only exceptions are
+  terminations per the reciprocity and defensive suspension terms
+  outlined below. Essential patent claims include pending, unpublished
+  patents, published patents, and patent applications. The license is
+  only for the exact scope of the standard in question.
+
       <ul>
-      <li> May be conditioned only on reciprocal licenses to any of licensees'
-      patent claims essential to practice that standard (also known as a
-      reciprocity clause)
-      <li> May be terminated as to any licensee who sues the licensor or any
-         other
-      licensee for infringement of patent claims essential to practice that
-      standard (also known as a "defensive suspension" clause)
-      <li> The same licensing terms are available to every potential licensor
+
+      <li> May be conditioned only on reciprocal licenses to any of
+        licensees' patent claims essential to practice that standard
+        (also known as a reciprocity clause)</li>
+
+      <li> May be terminated as to any licensee who sues the licensor
+        or any other licensee for infringement of patent claims
+        essential to practice that standard (also known as a
+        "defensive suspension" clause)</li>
+
+      <li> The same licensing terms are available to every potential
+        licensor</li>
+
       </ul>
-<li>The licensing terms of an open standards must not preclude implementations
-  of that standard under open source licensing terms or restricted licensing
-  terms
+</li>
+
+<li>The licensing terms of an open standards must not preclude
+  implementations of that standard under open source licensing terms
+  or restricted licensing terms</li>
+
 </ul>
 
 </blockquote>