Gracias a Groklaw, URL:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080901220545193
Verán la firma de Cuba al final, representada por la ONI (Miriam fue
la signataria por la ONI). El texto:
CONSEGI 2008 Declaration -- Open Letter to ISO Reveals More OOXML Issues
Monday, September 01 2008 @ 11:54 PM EDT
There is an unexpected reaction from major government IT agencies in
six countries condemning the ISO/IEC refusal to act on the four
appeals against OOXML, which they say "reflects poorly" on ISO/IEC.
They have signed and sent an open letter to ISO, which I'll show you
in full. The countries represented are South Africa, Brazil,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Cuba. Here's a paragraph to give you
a taste:
Given the organisation's inability to follow its own rules we are
no longer confident that ISO/IEC will be capable of transforming
itself into the open and vendor-neutral standards setting organisation
which is such an urgent requirement. What is now clear is that we will
have to, albeit reluctantly, re-evaluate our assessment of ISO/IEC,
particularly in its relevance to our various national government
interoperability frameworks. Whereas in the past it has been assumed
that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use
within government, clearly this position no longer stands.
How in the world can ISO/IEC claim that the OOXML approval has not
been damaging to ISO/IEC's reputation now? Have you ever heard of such
a thing?
Three of the signatories, South Africa, Brazil, and Venezuela,
submitted appeals that were denied. South Africa's appeal included the
grounds that are supposed to be sufficient for an appeal:
This appeal is made in accordance with Clause 11.1.2: "A P member
of JTC 1 or an SC may appeal against any action, or inaction, on the
part of JTC 1 or an SC when the P member considers that in such action
or inaction:
- questions of principle are involved;
- the contents of a draft may be detrimental to the reputation
of IEC or ISO; or
- the point giving rise to objection was not known to JTC 1 or
SC during earlier discussions."
We believe that there is an important question of principle
involved and that the reputation of ISO/IEC is indeed at stake. There
has been speculation about the need to revise the directives around
fast track processing. While such revision might indeed be necessary,
we cannot accept the outcome of a process in which the existing
directives have not, in our opinion, been applied.
Maybe that is part of what they mean about rules not being followed.
Jomar Silva of Brazil, who attended the ballot resolution meeting and
was the first to break "the law of silence" and tell the world how bad
it was at the BRM, discusses this latest development, and he provides
a link to the letter. Silva writes:
As far as I know, the countries that sent the appeals do not
intend to appeal again, despite this be[ing] possible under the
already broken JTC1 directives.
Thus, managers of the major IT governmental organizations in
Brazil, Venezuela and South Africa wrote and co-signed an open letter
to ISO, to express their dissatisfaction with the final result of this
all.
The letter was also signed by managers of similar entities in
Ecuador, Paraguay and Cuba, in a clear signal that this affected more
people than I imagined.
Andy Updegrove provides some background:
The statement is titled the "CONSEGI 2008 Declaration," named for
the South and Latin American government open source conference held in
Brasilia, Brazil, at which the Declaration was signed. Those that
attended included senior government officials, such as Brazil's
Minister of Science and Technology, as well as representatives of the
six nations that signed the declaration: Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, South
Africa and Venezuela.
In objecting to the dismissal of the earlier appeals, the
Declaration notes, "That these concerns were not properly
addressed....reflects poorly on the integrity" of ISO/IEC.
And here is the Open Letter:
************************************
CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION
We, the undersigned representatives of state IT organisations from
Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Paraguay, note with
disappointment the press release from ISO/IEC/JTC-1 of 20 August
regarding the appeals registered by the national bodies of Brazil,
South Africa, India and Venezuela. Our national bodies, together with
India, had independently raised a number of serious concerns about the
process surrounding the fast track approval of DIS29500. That those
concerns were not properly addressed in the form of a conciliation
panel reflects poorly on the integrity of these international
standards development institutions.
Whereas we do not intend to waste any more resources on lobbying our
national bodies to pursue the appeals further, we feel it is important
to make the following points clear:
1.The bending of the rules to facilitate the fast track processing
of DIS29500 remains a significant concern to us. That the ISO TMB did
not deem it necessary to properly explore the substance of the appeals
must, of necessity, put confidence in those institutions ability to
meet our national requirements into question.
2. The overlap of subject matter with the existing ISO/IEC26300
(Open Document Format) standard remains an area of concern. Many of
our countries have made substantial commitments to the use of
ISO/IEC26300, not least because it was published as an ISO standard in
2006.
3. The large scale adoption of a standard for office document
formats is a long and expensive exercise, with multi-year projects
being undertaken in each of our countries. Many of us have dedicated
significant time and resources to this effort. For example, in Brazil,
the process of translation of ISO/IEC26300 into Portuguese has taken
over a year.
The issues which emerged over the past year have placed all of us at a
difficult crossroads. Given the organisation's inability to follow its
own rules we are no longer confident that ISO/IEC will be capable of
transforming itself into the open and vendor-neutral standards setting
organisation which is such an urgent requirement. What is now clear is
that we will have to, albeit reluctantly, re-evaluate our assessment
of ISO/IEC, particularly in its relevance to our various national
government interoperability frameworks. Whereas in the past it has
been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be
considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer
stands.
____________________________
Aslam Raffee (South Africa)
Chairman, Government IT Officer's Council Working Group on Open
Standards Open Source Software
____________________________
Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni (Brazil)
Presidente, Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados
____________________________
Carlos Eloy Figueira (Venezuela)
President, Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información
____________________________
Eduardo Alvear Simba (Ecuador)
Director de Software Libre, Presidencia de la República
____________________________
Tomas Ariel Duarte C. (Paraguay)
Director de Informática, Presidencia de la República
____________________________
Miriam Valdés Abreu (Cuba)
Directora de Análisis, Oficina para la Informatización
_______________________________________________
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