Editing Open standard (section)

==== Free Software Foundation Europe's definition ====

The [[Free Software Foundation Europe]] (FSFE) uses a definition which is based on the [[European Interoperability Framework]] v.1, and was extended after consultation with industry and community stakeholders.<ref>https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/standards/def.en.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20090710000959/http://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.html old ver]</ref> FSFE's standard has been adopted by groups such as the SELF EU Project, the 2008 Geneva Declaration on Standards and the Future of the Internet, and international [[Document Freedom Day]] teams.

According to this definition an Open Standard is a format or protocol that is:

# Subject to full public assessment and use without constraints in a manner equally available to all parties;
# Without any components or extensions that have dependencies on formats or protocols that do not meet the definition of an Open Standard themselves;
# Free from legal or technical clauses that limit its utilisation by any party or in any business model;
# Managed and further developed independently of any single vendor in a process open to the equal participation of competitors and third parties;
# Available in multiple complete implementations by competing vendors, or as a complete implementation equally available to all parties.