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OOXML: A global NO so far but still counting 2 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:11 -0300 Published: 27 Mar 2008 Published: 11:05 am Categories: OpenDocument Format Tags:

Open Malasia blog has a user friendly post with a map of the voting. See the tables and understand the voting criterias.

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#1

They will get it approved but it will be a real problem for both the ISO system and Microsoft. Yes, a bitter victory. I think all sides would be better off when Microsoft gets time to fix the specification, so it would be approved with real consensus and without dirty tricks and stuffing. I would forgive them everything they have done to international standardization. The standard project driven by p-members like Ivory Coast, Jamaica etc. - this is just insane. Don’t they care about the damage they do to the international standard system?

#2

Andy, I’ve been traveling across many countries to talk to their National Standardization Bodies and what I am finding is that these institutions are simply naive and don’t know how to run a standardization process.

Microsoft could cast a YES vote in many countries simply because these NBs don’t know how to act. Sad but true.

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