On 02/10/09 12:20, Michael Stahl wrote:
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it seems there is hope that the weird situation of the ISO standard being
based on the outdated OASIS standard 1.0 will be improved:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/group_public/email/office/200909/msg00162.html
<quote>
* Rob and Dennis reported on the recent meeting of JTC1/SC34 Ad Hoc Group
3 on maintenance of ISO/IEC 26300
[...]
- SC34 will request that we submit [OASIS] ODF 1.1 in a form where it can
be processed as an amendment of [ISO] ODF 1.0
</quote>
I am more sceptical of ISO now than ever before. IMHO they are less than
irrelevant when it comes to standards for IT. They move far to slowly to
keep up and their procedures have proven to be corruptible. the IETF,
W3C, OASIS et al might not be perfect, but at least they are transparent
and things actually *get done*.
The NBs that make up SC34 are now stuffed with MS employees and
consultants [1] and the debate about which group actually takes on the
maintenance of 26300 seems to be leaning toward the the group that -
wait for it - maintains ISO/IEC 29500 (OOXML to you and me) too! i.e.
Microsoft. They will probably do what they always do: their utmost to
stall and halt proceedings until it is in their interests to allow them
to proceed.
Oh yes, Ad Hoc Group 3 is essentially finished according to this [2] and
will be replaced by WG6. :-)
[1] http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/10/final-ooxml-update-part-i.html
[2] http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/09/whats-new-in-odf-maintenance.html
Al
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