01.29.07
PDF is Taking a Trip to Standardization
I was just glancing at my bloglines feed before heading to bed and I noticed a couple of new posts by Robert Scoble. One of these, Breaking News: Adobe to release PDF to ISO, caught my eye. The fact that Scoble is so on top of things explains why he's ranked #9 on Forbes.com Top 25 Web Celebs (I found out about this listing via a post on Amber MacArthur's Blog).
Anyways... Adobe has released a press release stating that they will be passing the PDF 1.7 Specification to AIIM (Enterprise Content Management Association) so it can be passed to the ISO for publication.
The most I can do is share this because ultimately I don't know the benefits of being a standard... I'd love some insight on the subject...
From reading the ISO Website I've come up with the following list of benefits:
- Internationally agreed upon features such as terminology, compatibility and interoperability.
- Provides the requirements a product must meet and a method of measuring that those requirements are met
I suppose this is also a smart business move since ODF is already a published standard... It also makes sense to move towards standardization from a business sense... Standards can be complied to... and with current compliance pushes in various markets... this could include the use of PDF as the standard method of trading information...
So my question is... Will PDF be a Freely Available Standard (A short list, considering the more than 16,000 (according to the ISO in Brief publication) Standards the ISO has published, but surprisingly (to me) it includes C#)?
