[WSIS CS-Plenary] Old problem, new solutions

[Hervé Le Crosnier]

	Another slant of the exchange concerning UN documentation
	site.

	The site is old. We discover the problem today because
	we are looking following an annoucment this morning.

	First, this mean that we are following the list, and
	very intersted by the information circulating on
	the list, though it's mostly a noisy list :-)))

	Second : we can't blame todays actors for thing that
	were donne long ago. Techies were not as sharp as now.
	I'm teaching webmastering, and if i look back to the
	way we teached our student years ago, we will certainly
	be afraid :-))

	The problem is the one of re-engineering.

	This problem is a perpetual one in an information society.

	So, as civil society, guided by users interest, we can give
	advice to gouvernemental or international bodies to
	be always sure that they will master their next re-ingeniering.

	- follow open standards, the most advanced at the lauch time
	  of a projet.
	- publish the specification of the systems (well it certainly
	  means free-software isn't it ?)
	- separate and always separate : n-tiers services can more
	  easily be subject to progress. Well this mean no one can
	  get a hold on a complex system. Good for freedom isn't it ?
	- publish API : the internet technologies are more than any
	  technology a testbed for new services, new usages and
	  revalorisation of existing services, documents and
	  technologies... It means that anyone can learn and test,
	  and learn by testing : an information society is a never
	  ending learning society.

	Those are not technical rants, only political insights
	of what is to be a free and open information society.

	Even at re_engineering time.

hervé Le Crosnier