So, we've had a long talk about some of the implications of the cyber-Isileans Act,
but I can imagine that there are some developers in this room who are wondering how the hell
am I going to implement all this.
Now, luckily, there is a solution to that problem, and it is the standards which are currently
under development for the CRA, and they cover a number of different verticals, so it can
be anything from operating systems to system, event and information management.
There is a really wide variety, and I was I, Simon myself and others, have been working
on this for quite some time now, so we're heads to tell you about how you can get involved
if you want to get involved.
First, it would be extremely rude of me not to say thank you to a couple of people who
are currently in the room.
We have Alton and Law, both from Etsy, which is one of the European standardization
organisations, who have been working with us to make sure that open source developers can
participate in the standardization work.
I know there are a few of us in the room, but I do think they deserve a round of applause for
that, because it's the first time in history that open source developers can get directly
involved in the standardization process, so I think they deserve a better than the
applause for that.
So we're getting quite late in the process now, but the goal of today really is to show
you precisely how you can do just that.
So first thing you need to know is that if you want to get involved and you're not sure
where to start, you can contact Simon and all myself, and we will happily sort of get
you involved, get you integrated.
We can get you into the meetings at the standardization organisations as well, so please
feel free to reach out to us, we're getting a little bit of feedback, but you can reach
us at, so Jordan at open source.org and Simon at open source.org, just going to give you
a little bit of a show of how you can participate as well more directly, which you like
to take the mic and the rate.
I can do that.
Okay.
For our views as well.
Which have you done that?
Yes.
Okay.
And we're playing slide karaoke here, because I've not seen his slides.
It's not even slides.
I'm going to go straight to the last.
So at Etsy, the first of all clarified, the standardization work is in two broad
parts.
There are horizontal standards that standards that affect every kind of product, that are
being developed at San Senlec, and those standards are punitively difficult for anyone
from outside the standards machine to get even to read, let alone to get involved in.
We do have a coming plan that will come to that later.
And then all the vertical product standards are being, or most of the vertical products
standards are being developed at Etsy.
Etsy is one of three European standards or organizations.
That's Senlec and Etsy, and they were designated as, by regulation, 1025, 2012.
This is not really what they do for a living, either of them.
Senlec tends to do standards about interoperable infrastructure, like making sure your
pipes fit together and your roads have got the right rate of tarmac.
And Etsy is dominated by the standardization of telecommunication standards, although it
has, in the recent decade, diversified a great deal into many other areas.
The vertical standards are being developed by a committee called EU Standards Request, within
a larger technical committee called TC Cyber.
I'm lucky enough to be the Vice Chair of the USR, and we're lucky enough to have law
in the back row there as our Secretary and Administrator, and actually the person that makes
everything work.
Gainy access to these organizations has been challenging, but we're going to tell you
in a minute about, again, a cunning trick that we have discovered that will allow anyone
in the room to be involved if you would like to be.
So if you go visit that, you're at the top there, you'll discover that many of the standards
are on GitLab, and you can just look at the markdown of the improgress standard.
And most of the time, you can also open issues that describe your comments, preferably polite,
detailed accurate comments that can be actualized into changes in the spec.
So far, Etsy is chosen not to allow poor requests or change requests to be submitted.
Maybe next time, I don't know, but in your issue, if you have got a concrete change to the
standard that you are reading, the rapporteurs do not mind at all if you give them text
that they can quote from.
Sorry, derive their own version from.
So this shows you the one of the standards, this is the root of standard, so I'll
operate in system standard.
This is being maintained by somebody who holds the pen on behalf of the technical
committee called the rapporteur, because these standards are typically rather unprofitable
for Etsy's members, Etsy very wisely secured funding for paid rapporteurs to work on them.
And so most of the standards have got somebody who is a professional rapporteur who is gathering
the expert input of the technical committee and writing the text.
At the moment, all of these standards are at the stage where they are all the sections
are filled, they are viable, they are probably acceptable as a standard, and they
have all just been reviewed by the European Commission.
But you can still come comment.
These specs are still accepting comments on a monthly rolling cycle.
Your comments will all be considered, they will all be taken into the committee and reviewed
in a meeting where your suggestions will be considered and either accepted or will work
on something different or it will be lightly declined.
We are not too prudous about this, we will politely decline if what you have submitted
is not acceptable.
For example, to give you an example, the FSFE have commented on quite a few of the things and
so we will take the comments and work with them with people inside Etsy to try to get
those comments passed through, especially when it comes to stuff like freedom to use certain
stuff, where on say, routers or dealing with issues with security with bootloaders, stuff
like that.
So we are actually out of time already.
The essential has been said, except for how to join in.
So you have the slide on that?
I don't.
OK.
So through the careful work of some senior people at Etsy, OSI has got the privilege of being
able to ask genuine community members to be admitted as members of the ESR committee at
Etsy.
And if you work on a project which is effective by the CRA and you are willing to put
in the hard work of attending the meetings of reading the specifications, you should get
in touch with me or him or with law and we will work to have you admitted into the committee.
We have had several excellent contributions, the Zen community is helping us a great deal,
we are getting excellent contributions from the Debian community, but it may well be that you
are the perfect person to join in with this standardisation activity.
And then the other coming plan, Zen Senleck is almost impossible to make a contribution
to, I'm sorry, it's true.
And if you join the Etsy committee, again through the magic of administration, we can
probably give you access to the Zen Senleck working groups that are working on the horizontal
standards.
And again, if that's what you really want to happen and you want to think about it very
seriously before you say yes, come and talk to me and I will try and help you get involved
in that activity.
This is all revolutionary for me, I've been working on standards since 1988.
This is the first time it's been possible for the ad hoc community of open source to
actually be actively involved in the standards process without having to go through an
employer or a national organisation to gain access both of which turn out to be quite tricky.
So I'm really pleased by what has been achieved, particularly by Alton, who wrote the
MOU that we're doing this all under.
So that's everything we don't have time for questions.
There are quite a few rappel tours around, there are even some in the room, like there's
a couple of air back there.
So again, ask these people and we will help you get involved, thanks.
And do stick around because we have an amazing final session of the day with Toby Langel,
who's going to talk to us a bit about his experience in standard setting in how we can do
it better hopefully.
Toby, I'm going to hand over to you.