Ottsville, PA, (Eracent) April 11, 2008 - The work on the ISO/IEC 19770-2 Software Tag draft is very close to completed. At this moment the standard is in the public revision stage. Starting from April 11, 2008 the revised draft can be downloaded. It is accessible on many sites including the Eracent website, http://www.eracent.com/iso/isoiecdraft_19770-2.html. This phase ends on 11th May 2008.

The development of the ISO/IEC 19770-2 draft was possible thanks to a number of individuals from different companies. Eracent was one of them. Krzysztof (Chris) Baczkiewicz, IT Standards Support Manager of Eracent, as a leader of the elements definitions sub-committee, was responsible for defining software tag elements including the XML schema definition, which is the core of the standard. Steve Klos, the Convener of the ISO study group is very content about the collaboration with Eracent experts. Steve is responsible for on-going development of the ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard.

"I’ve been impressed with the efforts the team have put into getting this draft ready for public review", Steve admitted. "Moreover, Eracent has provided significant leadership in the overall definition of the structure of the tag".

Nowadays, detection process is very complicated and only very advance tools are able to discover and manage software assets. It will be much easier with a worldwide standard which indicates how software manufactures should tag theirs software in one, the same, standardized way. This is what ISO working group wants to achieve. ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard is to define the Software Tag. It describes how to create and use it. Thanks to the standard, the essential details like publisher, name, version, unique identification and many other mandatory and optional components are to be more easily retrieved. The standard is to be treated as an implementation guide for all software publishers.

“ISO/IEC 19770-2 will affect all SAM tool vendors. Eracent wants to be as close as possible to all the changes in this domain and take part in SAM progress. We are getting ready for the moment when standard is commonly used. We want our products to be ready for the detection process based on the standard. That’s why we make an effort to support the development of 19770-2", said Krzysztof (Chris) Baczkiewicz, IT Standards Support Manager of Eracent.


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