How can they state this as a standard platform, when it is clearly not neutral, and does not involve vendor-endependant and international security teams such as CERT centers, international government agencies, and formal standardization process leaded by a non-profit and open working group?

I will accept this as a standard body only when it will apply the standard structure of standard bodies like W3C, Unicode or ISO working groups.

For now I'll suspect this team to only testfor their own supported platforms, and using it to slash unfair comments about competing products. Notably missing in the vendor list:
* IBM
* Sun
* Oracle
* Sybase
* BEA
* Red Hat
also missing:
* ISO 9000/9001 certification
* open seats to internation CERT centers
* open seats to governments or to liaison members from ISO
* open seats for non-profit organisations ; notably public research teams and universities
* open forum for public comments
* formal and public meetings and agendas
* open participationto meetings
* "one member-one vote" rights in the board of directors
* fair openness to become members, with reasonable prices, with lower yearly fee for public and educational members
* open platform for linking independant research papers and education
* comprehensive lists of security issues on all surveyed systems
* a real international participation: this platform must meet the international support to be really trustable and efficient. Otherwise it will just be another too powerful firearm to hide import/export control, with less place for fair competition, and more place for expensive prices paidby consumers worldwide.

But these vendors have always shown in the past that they hate standards and prefer banning interoperability with just more patents, legal constraints non "RAND" licencing fees.

by verdyp (See profile) - February 7, 2006 6:30 PM PST

If this means certified to the likes/dislikes of the listed software manufacturers it is already biased against apparent outsiders like Grisoft(AVG). We need totally independent certification for any manufacturer prepared to pay a fixed price to test to a common standard set by IEEE or some other recognized standards body. What you describe is merely a marketing ploy.

by 109 (See profile) - February 6, 2006 9:58 AM PST

Does anyone remember when bill gates invited a bunch of hackers to microsoft labs to help him plug THE TRILLIONS OF WHOLES IN WINDOWS. This is the exact same thing but with anti spyware aps we need a good secure way of combating spyware. Me myself i use zone alarm 6 pro and it works wonders. It has spyware virus and every protection u can imagin go get it. But hopfuly this new develpment of everyone working together will benifit us in some way

by metalica77 (See profile) - January 30, 2006 2:09 PM PST