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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">In the quest for Open
Standards it is important for businesses to know which communication
standards are available between companies.<br>
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For instance if I want to know if a customer or vendor of our company
can accept files of the type "Open Document Text (.odt)" I should be
able to find out from their web site by bringing up a page such as
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.somedomain.com/filetypes.html">http://www.somedomain.com/filetypes.html</a>.<br>
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I want to foster the development of standards which would define the
web page's file structure, file name, types of documents and protocols
supported.<br>
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I could see this being a time saving venture which would allow IT
departments to save allot of time in the future and allow the world to
more quickly embrace new technologies and to run queries of trading
partners to see where common denominators and highest primes exist.<br>
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Technologies I'd like to know about trading partners:<br>
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<blockquote>XML<br>
PGP encryption keys<br>
OpenOffice2 support<br>
PDF Readers<br>
Linux Experience<br>
OpenLDAP<br>
iCal Calendaring URLs<br>
vCal<br>
vcard<br>
MS Office 97<br>
WordPerfect<br>
QuattroPro<br>
X-Forms<br>
Autocad 97<br>
Autocad 2000<br>
Autocad 2004<br>
OpenDWG (Open Design Alliance)<br>
EDI<br>
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If anybody is in a position to run with this idea, please feel free to
do so. I just want to see a way of finding where areas of willingness
for advancement exist.<br>
Thanks for your time!<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Joe Baker<br>
Network Administrator<br>
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.<br>
Makers of Outstanding Crystal Oscillators<br>
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