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This paper discusses the concept of Open Standards and proposes criteria for judging the extent to which standards developed by a particular Standards Setting Organization may be considered Open. The Java Community Process - the mechanism set up by Sun Microsystems to develop Java standards, and now continued by Oracle - is described and discussed in the context of these criteria.