The Swedish OOXML vote has been declared invalid!

The Swedish Standards Institute has tonight issued a press release where
they declared this weeks earlier vote regarding OOXML as invalid and by that
Sweden don't have any official position regarding OOXML any more.

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14874/2/

On 8/28/07, Anand Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 28 August 2007 17:38:41 Anton wrote:
> > now, the NS might move the date (2th Sep) and have 30 more days to
> decide.
>
> I think there is no change from the 2nd Sep ISO voting date. One of the
> vendors is playing dirty games by planting outright lies , such as:
>
> # In the 30-day contradiction period, one NB was told that the stated
> deadline
> from ISO had been extended and that they actually had two more weeks to
> debate before sending in their response. If they had listened to this
> advice,
> this NB would have missed the deadline and their comments would have been
> disregarded.
>
> # Another NB was told that they were not allowed to vote in the 5-month
> ballot
> because they had not participated in the contradiction period. This is
> totally false and has no basis in JTC1 Directives or past practice.
> Luckily
> this NB decided to check the facts for themselves.
>
> # Several NB's were told that JTC1 had resolved all contradiction concerns
> with OOXML and that these issues therefore cannot be raised again in the
> 5-month ballot. This is utterly false. No one at JTC1 has made such a
> determination.
>
> # Several NB's have been asked not to submit comments to JTC1 at all, but
> to
> send them directly to Ecma. (Yeah, right. Just sign your absentee ballot
> and
> give it to me. I'll make sure it gets in the mail)
>
> # Many NB's are being asked to throw away their right to a conditional
> approval position by voting Approval on a specification they they believe
> is
> full of defects that must be fixed, even though JTC1 Directives clearly
> states that "Conditional approval should be submitted as a disapproval
> vote."
>
> # Many NB's are being persuaded to vote Approval with the promise that all
> of
> their comments will be "addressed at the BRM" without explaining
> that "addressing a comment" may entail little more than entering it in a
> Disposition of Comments Reports with the remark "No action taken".
>
> Read more at: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/disenfranchisement.html
>
> Regards
> Anand
>
>
> > Will SG/ML continue to play snake's game and publish results "as
> > everybody else (big brother?) have decided" or keep the word and have
> > their own good research and strong opinion "why yes/no"?
> > http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-17511/lies-damn-lies
> >
> > On 28/08/07, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > How did Singapore vote on OOXML?
> > >
> > > The ITSC met and voted last Friday.  The committee, before the voting,
> > > agreed to keep the final results confidential until September 2nd.  I
> > > will honour that.
> > >
> > > The Malaysian standards body has also voted - this past Monday.  They
> > > too have decided to keep the results confidential till September 2nd.
> > >
> > > Harish
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