Stairway to Interoperability

As you might know, I soon will no longer be sailing under Oracle's
    flag.

    But as it is hard to let off of old habits, I have decided to
    continue my ODF engagement for now.

    

    Last week, I started again by participating the ODF Plugfest in
    Berlin as a private person,

    Presenting my vision
      of a fully interoperable format as office users are desiring
    it.

    Driven by this user expectation, I would like to give the members of
    TC the idea of an overall direction driven by desire of
    interoperability.

    

    The user expectation is fairly simple: 

    For a user an ODF application is not only defined by our ODF
    specification, which is covering the persistent model of ODF, the
    document to be saved.

    Users have as well expectations on interoperability of the view of
    ODF (basically the layout) and the behavior (scripts, macros) the
    implicit known possible changes to be made on a document.

    Only after the specification of all three (model, view, behavior)
    had been archived our work on an interoperable document standard is
    fulfilled.

    

    Too much to be written in a single mail, but it might be enough to
    give you a spark of a vision.

    

    Regards,

    Svante