[Bradford] Uk Gov proposes to use only document formats based on Open Standards in future.

[david C]

Have you seen this?

http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents

They propose:

Standards to be used:

HTML 4.01 - ISO/IEC 15445:2000 Information technology - Document
description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language
(HTML)
HTML5
ODF 1.1 - ISO/IEC 26300: 2006/Amd 1: 2012 Open Document Format for
Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1
ODF 1.2 - Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
Version 1.2

Other standards to be used:

CSV

TXT

Nice.

FSF Europe has a comment at:
http://standards.data.gov.uk/comment/865#comment-865

Cheers
David