87 national standards bodies have 30 days to re-examine OXML
Last week we pointed out the dicsussions that were held in Geneva regarding the Microsoft’s Open Extensible Mark-up Language or OXML
- 3 ISO - how JTC1 develops a proposal into an international standard
3,522 comments were submitted by national bodies. The ISO meeting had 1,100 items on the agenda. Unfortunately, there was only enough time to deal with 200 during the five day meeting.
Ecma and Microsoft expected national standards bodies to analyze a 6,000 page specification. As well, 3,522 comments as well as 2,300 pages of proposed resolutions had to be reviewed. Simply amazing to a bystander.
Some have raised the question if it was appropriate to fast-track the standardization of OOXML.
The 87 national standards bodies that voted in the 2007-09-02 ballot will now have 30 days until 2008-03-29 to examine the revisions made and to reconsider their vote if they wish.
Find out more on the:
ConsortiumInfo.org - Standards Blog
If this gets passed - Windows Vista problems might have been nothing compared to what OXML will do - just kidding. Nonetheless, we can only hope that the standard fails to pass the next hurdle, otherwise….
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