How can you turn the U.S. SEC eXtensible Business Reporting Language XBRL mandate’s requirements into an opportunity when making process improvements to comply? Implement an XBRL-enhanced document management strategy as part of your internal corporate filing workflow which will both boost compliance and save money.

During the State of the Union speech, President Obama made formal an assumption that had been emerging since his candidacy - his support for a carbon market as a vehicle for capping carbon emissions. In such a system greenhouse gas pollution emitters purchase a certain number of carbon credits. However, the supply of such credits is strictly limited, and other concerns, including environmental groups, municipalities, and even independent traders, may also purchase such shares.

How can you turn the U.S. SEC eXtensible Business Reporting Language XBRL mandate’s requirements into an opportunity when making process improvements to comply? Implement an XBRL-enhanced document management strategy as part of your internal corporate filing workflow which will both boost compliance and save money.

Some thoughts on the Open Standards material in this week’s UK government Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan.

During the State of the Union speech, President Obama made formal an assumption that had been emerging since his candidacy - his support for a carbon market as a vehicle for capping carbon emissions. In such a system greenhouse gas pollution emitters purchase a certain number of carbon credits. However, the supply of such credits is strictly limited, and other concerns, including environmental groups, municipalities, and even independent traders, may also purchase such shares.

It seems to me that there is a piece missing. It applies to ODF, OOXML and other standard formats. Here is my first stab at a solution: MODUS. I think we need something like MODUS because we need to support the maximum richness and adoptability of the standard formats without sacrificing openness and interoperability.

Some thoughts on the Open Standards material in this week’s UK government Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan.

One of the big selling points of descriptive markup is that it is safe. If you use a binary format (or a macro-enabled file) you can have a security problems. I think ODF needs to take a leaf out of OOXML’s book here, and at least adopt the convention where the normal extensions must be opened by conforming applications with macro- and script- and event- disabled. Security is so important, that it should be part of ODF 1.2 rather than a next-generation ODF issue.

It seems to me that there is a piece missing. It applies to ODF, OOXML and other standard formats. Here is my first stab at a solution: MODUS. I think we need something like MODUS because we need to support the maximum richness and adoptability of the standard formats without sacrificing openness and interoperability.

The growth of XRX web application architectures is driving the need for a new generation of web applications standards beyond the scope of the current XQuery specification. These standards promise to allow non-programmers to quickly assemble new web sites from libraries of pre-built XRX applications.