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Open letter to ISO/IEC from 6 countries on OOXML fiasco
News came out over the weekend that representatives from six countries—Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Cuba—have written an open letter to the ISO and IEC criticizing the handling of the OOXML appeals. See, for example, Groklaw: “CONSEGI 2008 … Continue reading
ISO and IEC (and ITU) get TV Emmy award
Hot off the presses: Geneva, 25 August 2008 — The US Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the prestigious Primetime Emmy Award for Excellence to ITU, ISO and IEC — global leaders in making standards — for their work … Continue reading
OOXML appeals: Now or never
Rob Weir has published an extensive blog entry detailing why the OOXML appeals process should be allowed to go on. He says, in part, Dismissing an appeal with so many open unresolved issue is not expediency. It is merely creating … Continue reading
Alex Brown: OOXML will be second to ODF
You’ve got to love Google Alerts. This morning I got this link to a Press Release from Giffin Brown with the title “OOXML will take second place following Microsoft’s announcement to support ODF, says Dr Alex Brown”. Alex was the … Continue reading
Update on ISO/IEC appeals regarding OOXML
Groklaw and Andy Updegrove have the latest news of the appeal process for OOXML in ISO/IEC. See Groklaw: “ISO to TMB: Here Are the Appeals Against OOXML; They Should Be Denied” Andy Updegrove: “ISO TMB Recommends Rejection of OOXML Appeals” … Continue reading
ISO press release about OOXML appeals
In case you missed it, the ISO has put out their press release about the appeals process for OOXML: “Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500″. Evidently this hasn’t happened before and so will be another … Continue reading
Protest on OOXML Fast Track results from group in Denmark
Via Groklaw there’s word that the Open Source Leverandørforeningen in Denmark has written a letter of complaint regarding OOXML. This is not a formal appeal as it was with India, Brazil, and South Africa, but nevertheless shows some of what … Continue reading
India also files appeal on OOXML to ISO and IEC
Thanks to Russell in a comment to my previous blog entry. PCWorld is reporting that in addition to South Africa, both Brazil and India are appealing the OOXML decision to ISO and IEC. Somehow after this last week’s news regarding … Continue reading
Brazil protests ISO/IEC OOXML BRM process and outcome
Both Andy Updegrove and Groklaw have the news that Brazil has sent a letter to ISO and IEC protesting the way the OOXML Ballot Resolutiuon Meeting was handled. There is some confusion regarding whether this is a formal call for … Continue reading
South Africa appeals ISO/IEC OOXML decision
Evidently the attempt to fast track the huge OOXML specification is not over. The national standards body of South Africa has decided to appeal the decision. See Andy Updegrove’s and Steve Pepper’s blogs for the story and links. Both are … Continue reading
Where’s the final OOXML specification?
We’ve heard from folks that the final post-Ballot Resolution Meeting version of OOXML has still not been made available to national standards bodies. This would be the updated 6000+ page document that included all the edits voted on at the … Continue reading
On quality and standards: The W3C
Over in his blog, Arnaud Le Hors has an excellent piece called “A Standards Quality Case Study: W3C.” With all the fuss about ISO recently, I think people need to remember that important, and sometimes more important, standards work is … Continue reading
Regarding OOXML and the need for change
When I was in Geneva in February, I found myself saying something like the following to those who asked me how I thought the OOXML/DIS 29500 vote was going to turn out. “If the ballot fails, we will have seen … Continue reading
Critical questions for national bodies considering OOXML/DIS 29500
As we move into the last 10 days before the final chance for national standards bodies to change their JTC1 ballot on Microsoft’s OOXML specification expires, there are key questions that the bodies and the people who participate in them … Continue reading
Changes to the SC 34/JTC1 rules for changing your OOXML vote
A colleague just pointed out that the rules have been modified for notifying SC 34 of JTC1 that you wish to change your national vote on OOXML/DIS 29500. I updated my original entry, but here is the new text from … Continue reading
OOXML IPR problems
I get sent a lot of material on OOXML by people around the world, and I presume I’m not the only recipient. A lot of it is, frankly, rather funny, since it assumes that the people reading it won’t ever … Continue reading
To be clear: IBM is opposed to OOXML/DIS 29500
I’m hearing rumors that certain industry trade organizations are telling people that ALL their members are in favor of Microsoft’s OOXML, aka DIS 29500. Whether or not this is true, I want to be very clear that IBM is opposed … Continue reading
OOXML/DIS 29500: National bodies CAN change their vote to NO
Yesterday I published a link to the joint ISO/IEC press release about the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting that took place in Geneva last week. I noted that I thought it was “pretty evenhanded and neutral, in my opinion” though some … Continue reading
The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics
I’ve provided a few links in another entry to some of the negative views from the ISO/IEC Ballot Resolution Meeting for Microsoft’s OOXML specification (via ECMA). For the most part, I’m letting others comment, especially those who were in the … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-03: Special OOXML BRM Edition
XML spec editor: OOXML ISO process is “unadulterated BS” “Participants say that only a small portion of the ECMA responses were actually discussed during the BRM. When time ran out, the rest of the responses were simply approved without any … Continue reading
Some metrics for measuring the success of the OOXML BRM
A very strange thing happened at the beginning of September, 2007. Microsoft issued a press release following the close of balloting on OOXML that began Today the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released the results of the preliminary ballot to … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-22
What If Microsoft Gave An Interoperability Party and Nobody Came? Jason Brooks – Open Source – Microsoft’s Interop Forecast Is Partly Cloudy “However, the legal environment surrounding interoperability between Microsoft’s products and the open-source applications that have sprung up to … Continue reading
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Tagged FSF, ISO, Microsoft, Obama, ODF, OOXML
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Comments on ECMA’s (aka Microsoft’s) OOXML comment resolutions
We’re starting to hear about how Microsoft (under ECMA’s name) is resolving the technical comments on OOXML. What do you need to know about this? Where are they? If this is a transparent process, we need to see the comments … Continue reading
3. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: FAQs posted
Alex Brown, convenor of the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva at the end of February, has posted a set of “frequently asked questions” at the ISO/IEC JTC1 website.
2. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: Why You Should Worry About All Comments
In English language literature, the usual example of a very long book is Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace which, at least in the hardcover version to which I’ve linked, comes in at 1296 pages. Suppose you were an editor for … Continue reading
1. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: Questions and Answers
Though I’ve written about this before, I continue to be amazed that there does not seem to be a single, unambiguous, and logically complete description of what will happen at the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva at the … Continue reading
Some OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting comments
The situation and rules for the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) are starting to become clearer. As you may know, this is a follow-up to the September 2 vote where the Microsoft/ECMA OOXML (“Open” “XML”) specification failed on both measures to … Continue reading
More OOXML damage
See Andy Updegrove’s piece ‘OOXML Payback Time as Global ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 34 Standards Work “Grinds to a Halt”‘.
Remembering September
In early August I stated in this blog that after the OOXML JTC1 ballot closed on September 2, the sun would rise, the birds would sing, and so on. As we are now at the end of the month and … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source, Standards
Tagged ECMA, ISO, Microsoft, ODF, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2007-09-16
Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns | InfoWorld | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Google, which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft’s Office Open XML, came out Friday in … Continue reading
