*, Hi. The Project Editor (the ISO term to describe the person who manages the contents of any ISO document) for the OOXML proposal is in Singapore till next Tuesday.
Given the fact that we all agree that there are significant issues with OOXML, and that Singapore has filed a "approve with comments" for the proposal, it would be useful for us to hear from him the actual process come Feb 08 when there will be a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva. I am not sure if there will be official Singapore representation, but I think it is still a useful exercise to hear from the editor. His name is Rex Jaeschke and his brief bio is as follows: Mr Rex Jaeschke is an independent consultant, author and seminar leader. His involvement with programming languages includes the following activities: 1. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 — Head of the U.S. delegation, and nominee to be the next chair. 2. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 and INCITS/J11 (C) — Served 15 years in various capacities. 3. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/JSG (Java Study Group) — Recording secretary. 4. Ecma TC41 (Java) — Convener of Task Group 3, APIs. 5. Ecma TC39 Task Group 2 (C#) — Project editor. 6. Ecma TC39 Task Group 3 (CLI, a subset of .NET) — Project editor. 7. Ecma TC39 Task Group 5 (C++/CLI) — Project editor. 8. Liaison between Ecma International and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22. 9. Worked in the software industry for 31 years, with numerous languages (including C, C++, Java, C#, COBOL, Fortran, BASIC, DIBOL, and various assemblers) and operating systems. 10. For more than 23 years, involved in editing and writing about issues related to program languages, environments, and their standardization. 11. Developer and leader of numerous programming language seminars. If there is any interest, I am keen to hold a session with him this coming Monday evening (say at about 6 pm) at a place to be confirmed. BTW, he will be speaking at the Programming Languages seminar and prize presentation tomorrow as well. His topic and synopsis is: "Ecma International's Role in Programming Language and Environment Standardization by Mr Rex Jaeschke, Microsoft Ecma International is a recognized Standards Development Organization. Although most of its standards have been hardware-related, in recent years, it has also produced some important software standards. These include the ECMAScript scripting language, the C# and Eiffel programming languages, the CLI runtime environment, and extensions to the Standard C++ language to support CLI. Ecma wasalso involved in an early Java standardization effort. Many Ecma standards are Fast Tracked to ISO/IEC JTC 1. In this presentation, we'll look at the Ecma development process, the JTC 1 Fast Track Process, and recent proposals for long-term maintenance agreements with JTC 1." Regards. -- Harish Pillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg id: 74609E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
