Open Document Format 1.2 Published As ISO/IEC Standard

jrepin writes: The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) Version 1.2, the native file format of LibreOffice and many other office applications, has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC. ODF defines a technical schema for office documents including text documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or presentations. The current version of the standard was published in 2011, and then was submitted to ISO/IEC in 2014.

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Is ISO even relevant?

[thegarbz]

Who really cares about this? After the last document format ISO approved does anybody actually care even in the slightest if a document is part of an ISO standard or not?

ODF was a published format, what benefit does it bring to have an ISO number next to it?

Re:Is ISO even relevant?

[Anonymous Coward]

+1 to parent.

I hate to be seen as invoking the name "Microsoft" even though it is not in the article, but illustrates the point made by the parent: MS fully understands the attention an ISO number brings. POSIX compatibility in WinNT was merely lip-service to US government procurement rules, at least to me. Same with MSOOXML. "Standards compliance" in these two examples are very clearly considered a reluctant burden rather than a sincere effort to being interoperativity.

Re:Is ISO even relevant?

[wertigon]

Yes, but in most of those cases it's because:

a) There are NO standard format in that particular field, only a bunch of competing (open/closed) formats (see for example the current mess of IM).
b) Such a standard exists, but didn't for a very long time which created a non-standard legacy mess that needs to be cleaned up by someone.