[Wylug-discuss] ISO MS OpenXML Vote

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007, mikeb at gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
> > Anybody know which way BSI are planning on voting in the ISO vote on
> > adoption of OpenXML (Microsoft's rival to the properly open ODF) as a
> > word processor document format?
>
> I'm a member of the BSI panel on this one. Confidentialy prevents me from
> divulging its deliberations (part of the BSI rules of participation).
>
> Note that this is a purely advisory technical panel. It does not determine
> the UK vote.
>
> It's now up to the higher committees in BSI to determine what they should
> do given that there are some 600 defects registered on the wiki at
> http://www.xmlopen.org/ooxml-wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> One would hope that the higher committees are clued-up enough to take that
> into account. We will find out in due course whether or not that be the
> case.
>
> Alex Brown of the UK's BSI panel (all of whom are 'volunteers', i.e. not
> remunerated by BSI for their work) will be the convenor of the ballot
> resolution meeting at ISO/IEC if enough countries vote agains. Everything I
> have seen or heard of him conveys the impression that he's a straight as a
> die. From what I suspect are the interests of most at wylug, he can
> probably be considered an asset.
> See http://www.adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry070811-114925
>
> Mike

Following a links leads to Alex Brown's page 

http://www.adjb.net/

with his take on the significance of the INCITS committee vote.

Dave.


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