This is a public page briefly presenting our European MSP involvement.
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After several years of negotiations involving W3C staff, the Reform
of
the European standardisation system by the Council of the European
Union
(2012) now allows civil servants to use and refer to specifications from
open standardization fora and consortia such as W3C,
IETF,
IEEE, and OASIS in situations involving public funds,
The Multistakeholder Platform (MSP) was set up as part of the reform to advise the Commission on its ICT Standardization work program. It's an expert group composed of EU member states, standards setting organisations and Fora and Consortia representatives, and it is co-chaired by DG CONNECT (unit F2) and DG ENTR.
One its main job is to identify which Fora/Consortia technical specifications in the field of ICT should be referencable in public procurement and policies.
Rigo Wenning is the primary W3C delegates in this group.
In 2013, the MSP has started collecting input about technical
specifications
fulfilling the reform criteria, and we have submitted a basic XML stack of
technologies for official recognition (7 RECs: XML 1.0.5, xml id,
namespace,
infoset, base, style, xinclude). We are also hosting and actively
participating
in the discussion list for the upcoming ICT Standardization Rolling Plan,
an
important document listing technology areas where the EC will most
probably
need new standards in the coming years.
This Rolling Plan for ICT Standardization identifies EU policy priorities where ICT standardisation and ICT standards should be considered as part of policy making. The Rolling Plan is a strategic document focusing on the support that standards or technical specifications, can provide in the context of EU policy priorities.
The Rolling Plan looks at the standardisation landscape in relation to
the
EU policy priorities. It identifies possible areas for action and may go
into
suggesting a plan or roadmap regarding effective standardisation support.
In its December 2013 version, the Rolling
Plan lists the following areas where the Commission currently
requires ICT
standardisation actions, and where the advice of the MSP is particularly
needed.
These policy areas are grouped in four clusters:
In a separate page (W3C member-only), we detail how and where W3C's standardization activities (current and foreseen) match this Rolling Plan.