14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, David Recondon announced the launch of the New Open Web Foundation, a virtual place where developers must come to an agreement regarding the development and ratification of web standards. "The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification, coming out of the realization that we could come together and generalize our efforts," says the official statement released by the supporting group.
Some of the companies that decided to enter the foundation and join their creative forces in order to decrease efforts and add-up their capabilities are BBC, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo!. Although the organization has more interest in going unnoticed, the great names that back it up will make it be in the center of attention.
Open data is seen as extremely important by the foundation, as services migrate from offline towards online. Open standards are indicated as an original concept of Mozilla's, who had the initiative of open-sourcing for its applications. The open specifications, that are needed, of course, for open data, have to be acknowledged first. In fact, the association has to establish what the web is made of.
Finally, everything reduces to users' comfort. Internet and as many applications as possible have to be accessible from everywhere and to anyone. These are some of the things that the Open Web Foundation has in sight. For fulfilling their purpose, developers that entered the association have to create as many open specifications and be the basis of freely accessible programs. Moreover, multi-language specifications, as everyone in the world must be able to have full access to the global network, are compulsory.
"Incubation", "licensing" (or, in fact, non-licensing), "copyright" and "community" are the keywords for the foundation, as David Recondon presented yesterday.