First, I could not spot a link to anything except that site, so here it goes [1] (official document from government). I'm late to the party, but essentially wh

First, I could not spot a link to anything except that site, so here it goes [1] (official document from government). I'm late to the party, but essentially what I have to tell - this is just a list of specs. There is no context to that. Let's look at a simple example of SQL? I think that mentioning SQL as a standard to be supported displays meaninglessness of this document. Which SQL? As far as I know, all of RDBMSes have their deviations from standard. Or they refer to any SQL-like language, not specific standard? How to interpret that? If Oracle expects clients to support PL/SQL, how that would reflect on chosing right client software? If it does not support PL/SQL, but has an excellent support for Microsoft's T-SQL? Document does not specify where and when to use these standards, as well as it seems too short (just a feeling without getting into that). For me this initiative is just words. They did not know what they were doing when they began. The did not know what they did in the end. Somebody asked somebody to "do something about this openness". And they did the easiest thing they could - list of open somethings... Or may be I am missing something? [1]: http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2012/11/21600/0646006465.pdf http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2012/11/21600/0646006465.pdf