Writing any statute in "technologically neutral" terms would also help prevent it from becoming obsolete, officials said.

It should be technologically neutral and not create disparate burdens or obligations depending on whether a counterfeit product is sold online or offline.

While GTD material is technologically neutral and advises people to start with a paper-based system, many task management tools claim to be GTD compliant.

Mr. Newman of Net Action asserted that universities, as incubators of innovation, should be technologically neutral.

"If a market-based solution is the way to get a cost-effective, technologically neutral acid rain bill, I'm for it," he said in an interview.

Secondly, in paragraph 7, we talk about it being technologically neutral.

Secondly, for the sake of accessibility for all, it is necessary for governments to offer their information in a technologically neutral format. This means not exclusively via the Internet.

In addition, a global legal framework for electronic commerce must be clear, transparent, simple, technologically neutral and should stimulate competition. It must offer both the consumer and producer adequate protection.

I do not regard it as being technologically neutral in the way that most of the committee would have wished it to be.

The second and important aspect of this directive is that it has been made technologically neutral.