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ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the money-can't-buy-happiness-but-it-can-rent-it dept.

snydeq writes "ISO and IEC gave OOXML the greenlight after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard. According to an ISO press statement, appeals by the national bodies of Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela did not garner support from two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC Standardization Management Board, which is required by ISO/IEC rules to keep the appeals process alive."

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  1. Re:standards are falling by Shados · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is only in the spotlight because it matters to anti-MS geeks. International standards have ALWAYS been such a freagin mess. It has always been a fight of power and money. "Fine, we will let you have your feature in the standard, if our technology is part of the standard too, then we'll vote for your proposition, and you vote for our proposition tomorrow".

    Its why many are so stupidly hard to implement, are political mess (XHTML2 anyone?), and why corporations eventually feel the need to make their own, to just bypass it all and be done with it.

    It was -always- this way. ISO has -always- been a freagin joke, and most people who implemeneted their crap already know this (ISO9001, lol). This is just a whole lot of same old same old.

  2. Re:MS by Narpak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Norway has decided that all official documents must be available through ODF, PDF or HTML; which ever is most suited to the information in question. Also schools and public offices must accept ODF as a valid format. This is because no policy should require citizens to purchase expensive software to use public services. Among other things.

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    The Long Now Foundation
  3. Re:Cooler heads prevailed by Timosch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is not about "We head Microsoft", it is about the fact that something like WordWrapLikeWord95 should not exist in an ISO standard.
    BTW: There was a very interesting graph in the German magazine c't. The essence was as follows:
    XHTML: ~100 pages, ~400 days of standardization process
    ODF: ~800 pages, ~900 days
    SVG: ~600 pages. ~1050 days
    SOAP: ~200 pages, ~950 days
    ...
    OOXML: ~6500 pages, ~350 days.
    You've no idea how incredible that looks in a graph...