Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, recently said, “The biggest problem in open source today is not innovation; it’s integration.”
So how do we find a happy medium and claim the benefits of both open source and standards to ensure integration and, ultimately, scalability? Here are a few suggestions: 1) Open source should drive standards, not the other way around. 2) We need to define “just enough standards” to ensure interoperability - and let the technology do the rest.
In this talk, I will dive into how open source is already driving standards, discuss examples for how to just enough standards works in practice, and how taking a programmatic approach to standards, this degree of interoperability, integration, and scalability can be achieved even today.
