http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1136
Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS
29500
2008-06-06
Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC – Brazil, India,
South Africa and Venezuela – have submitted appeals against the recent
approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML
formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
In accordance with the ISO/IEC rules governing the work of their joint
technical committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, the appeals
are currently being considered by the ISO Secretary-General and the IEC
General Secretary who, within a period of 30 days (to the end of June),
and following whatever consultations they judge appropriate, are
required to submit the appeals, with their comments, to the ISO
Technical Management Board and the IEC Standardization Management Board.
The two management boards will then decide whether the appeals should be
further processed or not. If they decide in favour of proceeding, the
chairmen of the two boards are required to establish a conciliation
panel which will attempt to resolve the appeals. The process could take
several months.
According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document which is the subject of an
appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while
the appeal is going on. Therefore, the decision to publish or not
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 as an ISO/IEC International Standard cannot be taken
until the outcome of the appeals is known.
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The last paragraph tells the full story. Hopefully the appeal process
will last one day for each page of the standard. What is it, close to
6000 pages? And I am talking meeting days.
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Robin Laing
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