OSCRE Values
The values OSCRE has adopted are intended to create and sustain
the conditions required for broad industry participation and
acceptance. These values include the following:
- Global – OSCRE will maintain a geographic
scope of governance which is globally consistent with local
profiles for varying business conditions and languages,
requiring governance that differentiates and is accountable
across the regional and industry sector interests.
- Not–for–Profit – OSCRE is a not–for–profit
business entity whose motives are to remain neutral with regard
to priorities and impartial with respect to member or specific
organizational input while serving the needs of the industry as
a whole.
- Voluntary – OSCRE is a voluntary consortium
in which members elect to pay dues and participate in a manner
which upholds the consortium’s open and consensus‐based
principles. OSCRE will facilitate the development of standards
requiring extensive consultation with membership and their
active involvement.
- Industry – OSCRE provides standards
development, adoption & management to the Real Estate Industry.
- Consensus – OSCRE employs consultative and
transparent processes to achieve broadly applicable and accepted
work products. All interests are discussed and agreement found
via a fair and democratic process, to ensure the overall needs
of the industry are being addressed and not just those of one
organization.
- Standards – OSCRE’s principle work products
are Standards; which are recognized by implementation and
acceptance to be authoritative and accepted in the target user
community.
- A Forum and Proven Processes – OSCRE
provides a forum and proven processes for industry organizations
to identify, discuss, resolve develop and accept real estate
information exchange standards.
- Development and Adoption – OSCRE employs
both development and adoption methods. Development methods
generally involve hosting the process for creating standards
specifications while an adoption method involves acceptance of
bespoke specifications developed external to OSCRE. Both methods
are subject to OSCRE’s requirements for openness and
consensus‐based approval.
- Open Specifications – OSCRE’s intent is to
make its work products widely and readily available to the
public but it reserves the use, duplication and distribution
rights for all of the consortium’s work products in order to
protect them in the public interest. The end product is one that
will be free to use and will not be hindered by individual IPR
for a contributing member organization.
- Transparent – OSCRE recognizes that, in
order to foster maximum possible industry trust and acceptance,
the methods and work processes of the Consortium must be as
clear and understandable as possible. These methods and
processes will be fair and will be adhered to for all work
products.
OSCRE is the only
global e–commerce standards body for the real property sector.
